[UK-CONTEST] Time off for Contesting.

[Paul Beecham]

Pehaps we could get sponsorship from Carlsburg, and "probably" be considered 
a proper sport,  If Carlsburg did radio contests ????

73

Paul G6PZ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Swiffin" <a.l.swiffin at dundee.ac.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Time off for Contesting.


>
>> 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.
> gm8eog
>
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