[UK-CONTEST] Politics and amateur radio

[Les Allwood]

I observed an unpleasant phenomenom on 15 metres during WPX on Sunday. A Ukrainian "contest-call" station was refusing to make contacts with UK or US stations and was instead subjecting such callers to a tirade on the subject of the Iraq situation.

It did seem somewhat odd that he was apparently participating in a US-sponsored contest, although I suspect that the irony was lost on him!!!

Let us hope that such events are few and far between, as there is quite enough about Iraq in the newspapers, and on radio and TV, without impinging on the amateur bands too.

Les, G3VQO