This (down below) is a little bit older video of mine on YouTube. I recorded it in the previous year on 2021.12.16, 13:28 CET (so this was before the Christmas of 2021), and I decided to upload it today. Maybe the audio is a little bit quiet on the video, because there was some kind of technical problem with the microphone of my smartphone (Samsung Galaxy A12), but the conversation is audible.
What you hear is a QSO (two-way radio contact) between an Ukrainian radioamateur (from Polovinkino, Luhansk Oblast, Eastern Ukraine) and me. His name is Alexander, which is Sándor in Hungarian.
What really felt especially good during/in this conversation is that he spoke to me a few words in my own language. In Hungarian. And I felt the happiness and gratefulness in his voice. He thanked me for the contact multiple times. It always feels very good, if someone from around the world speaks my language. It feels even more good if I feel happiness and gratefulness in his/her voice.
This QSO is a very pleasant memory for me. I know that nowadays the Ukrainian government banned the usage of radioamateur transmitters (because of the emergency situation), and this is why nowadays I do not hear Ukrainian people on the radio. I read from a few people on the internet that there are parts in Ukraine, where the amateur radio transmitter usage is not banned, and there are active stations there, but I cannot confirm this at the moment. I have not heard any Ukrainian stations on the radio in the previous few months.
And this is why I wrote "Something I miss on the amateur radio nowadays" in the title. I miss the Ukrainian radioamateur stations. I was not made two-way radio contacts with them too often in the past, but I still miss them.
I am praying for the people of Ukraine, and I hope that the war soon will be over, but based on what we can read on the internet nowadays, probably the case will be the opposite. A long war.
I wish good health, strength and all the best to the people in/from Ukraine, and to everyone else.
Happy Easter to everyone.
Have a nice day and have a nice weekend.
All the best. Greetings and much love from Hungary.
