[UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 47, Issue 50

[David Ferrington]

Doesn't our hobby require 'skill' ?

I don't like the term sport radio either, but if needs must....


On 30/11/06 14:03, "uk-contest-request at contesting.com"
<uk-contest-request at contesting.com> sent:

> Dictionary.com:
> sport
> *noun 1. 
>  an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a
> competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling,
> boxing, hunting, fishing, etc
> 
> Sign me up and I'll howl if you like.    I'd seen the term 'radio sport'
> bandied around and taken a 'well if you must' view to it, but when it gets to
> this stage......
> 
> I enjoy my radio HOBBY, I even take part in some contests, I sometimes, heaven
> forbid, miss out on some sleeping opportunities to pursue my HOBBY.   But it
> is a HOBBY not a sport.
> 
> How can amateur radio be a sport - what athletic skills are required?  OK, you
> can go into training at staying awake for a long time but that is no way
> sport.  I, in no way, mean to denigrate the skills required and demonstrated
> by those at the top of the radio contesting pile but you'll be asking me to
> believe that Sudoku will be in the olympics next.
> 
> OK - if you must,  the sport of 'antenna erecting' that I could believe
> in........

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