I also find W2WN's rancor on this topic to be a bit unrealistic. I'm
hard pressed to think of any other competition with such open global
participation as radiosport that doesn't involve at least as much
official and public scrutiny of both the performance and the result.
Golf, basketball, football, running, bicycling, soccer, etc ... nobody
would even consider administering a serious competition in such events
without significant oversight --- before, during, and after. Heck, look
at the absolutely incredible measures that are taken at WRTC to assure
that no participant is able to bend anything to their advantage, and
those folks are the cream of the crop in our hobby!
Besides, with a minimal amount of Google searching I can find well over
3,000 online forum posts that W2WN has made over the years on a wide
variety of subjects, and I suspect many of the rest of us aren't far
behind. Anything anyone would want to know about us is probably already
sitting out there by our own hand.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 8/6/2011 2:28 PM, Ward Silver wrote:
> "Will we as contesters be required to put a webcam in our
> shacks and expose ourselves to the world for 24 or 48 hours, to the whim of
> any voyeur who seems to find some reason to watch me operate a radio in
> shorts and a T-shirt?"
>
> I thought exposing ourselves to the world for 24 or 48 hours to any radio
> voyeur who seems to find some reason to call us on the radio was the entire
> point of contesting in general. If privacy is one's goal, radiosport would
> not be my first suggestion as a hobby.
>
> 73, Ward N0AX
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