Contesting, competition, field day competition, could qualify as sport? Reggie k6xr Amateur radio 57 years DXCC, RCC, WAC
Sent from my iPad On Mar 20, 2013, at 6:18 PM, "Gil G." <[email protected]> wrote: > Wishful thinking… > > IMHO it is absolutely not a sport. Even if you are on a SOTA activation, the > sport you are doing is hiking, not Ham radio. > Contesting is not a sport either. All you do is sit on your behind.. All that > is involved in Ham radio is moving your fingers and maybe lips a little.. I > can't even start to understand how it could be even remotely called a sport. > > Gil. > -- > PGP Key: http://keskydee.com/gil.asc > > On Mar 20, 2013, at 8:44 PM, Paul VanOveren wrote: > >> The link is to a 1958 Sports Illustrated article, about Ham Radio being a >> sport. If you have seen it before, sorry for the bandwidth, but I found it >> interesting reading, maybe some others will also... > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
