Contest Butt Hurt coming to a RX near you. CQWW SSB right around the corner.

[WN9HJW]

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[K7SGJ]

Beat me to it. Ya bastid

Sorry, I don't usually get the chance to beat you to anything. Ya whinny bastid.

[N7YA]

I think i am going to dust off the mic and try and log a few. But i will observe all rules like usual. I have no plans on being a bad ham, like usual. Im going to have fun...thats all. :)

[W3WN]

If you really want to stir things up . . . Call it "radiosport"

I despise that term.

I think it was coined (and is certainly promoted) by certain contesters who are full of themselves. These are the clowns who think that the WRTC is the radio contest equivalent to the Olympics. These are also, for the most part, the same turkeys who believe "anything goes", "if it's not specifically prohibited it's allowed", and "if you don't catch me it didn't happen." And don't get me started on the "open logs" nonsense.

These are some of the worst agitators -- they are the minority that gives ammunition to the contest haters.

I am not a "radiosport-er". I am a contester.

[W3WN]

Sorry, I don't usually get the chance to beat you to anything. Ya whinny bastid.

Beat it, both of you.

[W3WN]

I think i am going to dust off the mic and try and log a few. But i will observe all rules like usual. I have no plans on being a bad ham, like usual. Im going to have fun...thats all. :)

I'll keep an ear open for you, though I don't plan on spending a lot of time on the air this weekend. I have a few projects to finish up.

[NQ6U]

In fact, the term "radiosport" was coined in the old Soviet Union and specifically referred on-foot T-hunting. If done correctly, T-hunting really can be a sport requiring both electronics acumen and good physical conditioning.

[W3WN]

In fact, the term "radiosport" was coined in the old Soviet Union and specifically referred on-foot T-hunting. If done correctly, T-hunting really can be a sport requiring both electronics acumen and good physical conditioning.

You're absolutely right, and I'd forgotten about that.

I was thinking more of how the term has been co-opted... or even usurped... by certain induhviduals to mean, today, "top" level contesting. Not fox (transmitter) hunting.

[KB3LIX]

I enjoy hearing the bitching, whining, moaning, growning and gnashing of teeth
over contests. I used to try to educate the contest haters, now I just try to EGG them on.

Maybe I can raise their blood pressure to the boiling point, ruin their day, cause their
stomach ulcer to flare up, and generally F*** they up. They deserve the aggrivation.

If they don't like contests...do something else.

Wash the car, mow the lawn (or rake leaves in fall), walk the dog or the wife
which ever is appropriate, go out to dinner or just take a long easy weekend
AWAY from amateur radio.

All their whining etc has not changed the contest landscape, it has not stopped or delayed
any contest to date and never will. Contests are a fact of life...either live with them,
or get so upset that you stroke out...Either way it is YOUR choice.

Me...My choice is to try and maintain my SO-LP First place finish in the third call district.
I got last years certificate a few months ago.

Enjoy the slugfest !

[KJ3N]

My choice is to try and maintain my SO-LP First place finish in the third call district.
I got last years certificate a few months ago.

You've got more enthusiasm for contests than I do. I just keep trying to make it to 100 DXCC entities in a weekend. Best so far is 83.

For whatever reason, I just can't motivate myself to sit in front of the radio for more than about 3-4 hours at a stretch. Once in a great while, I can go 8. I either get bored and wander off to something else, or I have to get up and stretch my legs for about an hour. Then there's that pesky habit of actually sleeping 6-8 hours at a time.

Those of you who can do 24, 36, or 48 hours at a stretch, my hat's off to you. That's not gonna happen here.