[UK-CONTEST] Time off for Contesting.

[Andy Swiffin]

> Blame Joe Stalin for that. If amateur radio had not been officially 
> classified as a "sport", and organised through "sports clubs",
there's 
> no way it could have existed at all behind the Iron Curtain.
> 
> Much later, the term "Radio Sport" seems to have picked up by IARU,
and 
> applied more specifically to the competitive side of amateur radio.
> 
> Since IARU bureaucracy is even more impenetrable than the Kremlin, it

> looks like "Radio Sport" is here to stay.
> 


See the impressive physique of the Radio amateur.

See how they train to the peak of fitness by repetative raising of pint
glasses at their sports club meetings.

See the bulging muscles (in the right hand first finger).

See their enormous bladder capacity.

See how they can manfully (and womenfully) cast their voices to other
end of the world without leaving their (comfy padded reclined) chair.

See how they use their prowess and agility to catch the best
ionospheric waves.

Gosh - I wish we all had the body of a sporting radio amateur......


A.
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