[UK-CONTEST] Politics and amateur radio

[Alex Allan]

Hi,

I have always been pleasantly surprised over the years that, through many
serious political crisis, 99.999% of radio amateurs have had the good sense
to keep international politics out of international Amateur radio.

I hope it stays that way, for it would be a very bad thing for Amateur radio
if we handle it in any other way.

In my opinion, those who do not see the sense of this approach and vent
there spleen in Amateur radio forums/qso's are doing a great disservice to
the hobby. They are best completely ignored, as a violent reaction is
exactly what they want.

Alex

----- Original Message -----
From: "Les Allwood" <g3vqo at btinternet.com>
To: "UK Contest Reflector" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 4:29 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Politics and amateur radio


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
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