Tree (et al)
You are wise. When I started reading the political comments on this list, I groaned. I am not much of a politician, but even if I were, I come to ham radio to get away from all that. Throughout my life, I have always relished working folks in all countries w/o giving thought to how their governments were running their countries. Let's give that a rest and get back to complaining about QRN, short antennas, or the lack of NA stations Roger gets to work over and over every Wednesday ! ;-) 73 dit dit Mike VE9AA Guys - I need to step in here. This is not what ham radio people do. The Russian ham that you are pretending to punish is not the person responsible for what is happening in Ukraine. Think about the situation if you were a USA ham - and some other ham decided not to work you because they did not like the decisions someone in Washington had made. Throughout my ham career - I have enjoyed the opportunity to meet people in places that I was taught were bad places and become to understand that they were people just like me - and were perhaps more helpless to control their government than I can control mine. We all have worked Russians over the years - and I bet almost everyone here would be in the pileup if a station from North Korea came on the air. I will always feel the best hope for humanity is to get to know each other and understand each other's situation better and have some understanding. Ham radio is one way to break down the political barriers and get to know real people. I have kind of felt sorry for the stations currently using D1 as a prefix. They are just pawns in a chess game and through no fault of their own, ended up in a situation where they couldn't get a license. They came up with a work around that allowed them to get on the air. If I was in their situation, I would probably do the same thing. If Vladimir Putin were a ham, I could understand you deciding not to work him - but let's not pretend our friends who we have been working over the years are responsible. I will not tolerate anything less from the members of this list. 73 Tree N6TR Mike, Coreen & Corey Keswick Ridge, NB _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
