May 10th – Update from 4S7VK Ministry of Defense is conducting an investigation into the operations and conduct of Ivan Borazanko 4S7DXG after the Radio Society of Sri Lanka made representations to the authorities. It is established by the authorities that he smuggled in transmitting equipment into the country which is a criminal offense, and was never given permission to operate portable AS171 at any time even though he operated claiming AS171 in 2008 and in 2011. He also operated without a license in 2010 November on 160m presumably from the Ukraine. He has fled the country dodging arrest. This is totally against the principles of Amateur Radio and has endangered all future licenses to Foreigners in Sri Lanka. However, the RSSL will see that this doesn’t happen to genuine radio amateurs who the RSSL has always encouraged and who have shown their good-will to Sri Lanka and especially during the Tsunami.
The RSSL will always assist foreign radio amateurs to operate from Sri Lanka and its AS171 islands. Ivan Borazanko vioilated radio regulations, the penal code of the country and even insulted the officials of the national amateur radio society which even recommended him in 2003 in good faith, until he started violating the regulations of the country.
Such people bring the sacred trust we have in radio amateurs and if such people are allowed to get away with such activities, the international community will have to first find out whether every radio amateur is a valid operator before making contacts and sending QSLs
