[CQ-Contest] Contesting, Ham Radio and the Internet

[Pete Smith]

At 07:55 PM 1/13/02 -0000, Silver Ward wrote:

>"DXers and contesters have no Internet counterparts"
>
>Untrue, I must reply.  On-line gaming is intense and widespread.  I have two
>17-year-old male progeny, in the prime of their awakening competitive
>urges - they would rather log on and do battle than eat (or sleep or bathe
>or do homework...).  

Without commenting on the rest of Ward's thoughtful discussion of the QST
issue, I must reply, "Not the same at all."  On-line gaming is nothing but
chess by telephone, updated for the kid environment.  The inherent
fascination in radio sport is that it is the act of communication itself
that is competitive, uncertain, and endlessly changing.

73, Pete N4ZR

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