Thanks Chris.
I see your point.
For many of us this is sport as the self-regulation works.
Most of us realize there are participants who do not care so much for the rules.
How about .. if you compare to sports events and the athletes of their
own competitions in their own categories, getting live TV time
worldwide.
There are doping news available for us to sigh about weekly if not daily.
There are news of engineers quitting their jobs because the jury
judged the technology some competitor used was accepted despite the
engineer showed the clear technical rule non-compliancy.
Also many ham contests uncover and penalize entrants and teams for
similar kinds of phenomena.
I consider contesting a sport.
Regarding comparing to motor sports or boxing, I am sure you are
somehow omitting QRP, LP, HP, TB-Wires and rookie categories just so
you could create some thoughts and writings.
Many contests are really enforced.
There is a level doping can be enforced in boxing or motor sports.
Same applies to contesting.
Everybody learn the basics of cheating from their peers in their childhood.
Willingness to play fair varies between persons.
Regardless the sport or competition.
About cycling.
The value of cycling as a sport and even as a hobby has degraded
rapidly during the past few months.
The rule non-compliant really cut the value of the sport they are in.
Especially if the ruling & judging teams fail uncovering the wrong-doers.
73,
Jukka OH6LI
2013/3/5 DL8MBS <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>:
> Hi Jukka,
> basic point why it is (for me) not a sport: Sticking to the rules in central
> points is "only" up to the honour of participants. In boxing competitor´s
> weight is measured to have them in the correct category, motorcycles are
> grouped into categories by ccm, which can be controlled by inspectors on the
> competition site (and especially finnish car-racing fans may remember the
> sometimes so called "Schummel-Schumi" from DL in Formula 1...).
> We don´t have that possibility especially with power - and I´m not sure
> whether we want to have teams measuring field strenghts etc. on site...
>
> Many other aspects you describe like the points of HS0CZW are shared by most
> us us, including me, not only to escape a finnish interrogation (please
> elaborate on a different place about...). They are fascinating and
> satisfying enough to pursuit the "competetive part" of the hobby in the many
> intense ways we know and which can be claimed as a psychiatrist´s case.
> Talking from qrp perspective: It is not necessary to be crazy to contest
> (with qrp), but it helps very much.
>
> But for being a real sport it misses this basic aspect of control (and it is
> against all experience that an intense competetition is not accompanied by
> efforts to cheat). So there is only Sisiphuses work to keep confidence at
> least as high as possible (=higher than in professional cycling), means also
> talking about cheating.
>
> Best 73, Chris (DL8MBS)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:10:44 +0100
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Some positives / HS0ZCW
> From: Jukka Klemola <jpklemola@gmail.com>
> To: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>, cq-contest
> <cq-contest@contesting.com>
>
> Chris,
> You set a completely new ball up in the air.
>
> You set a claim contesting is not a sport.
>
> Can you please elaborate a little?
> -not a sport on mental side ?
> -not a sport on physical side ?
> -no fatigue factors resolving the better in the competitions ?
> -no skill factors involved ?
> -no personal development factors involved ?
> -development of related technologies are irrelevant ?
>
> Or what do you mean?
>
>
> As Monty himself could put it: You did not expect a Finnish inquisition .. ?
>
>
> 73,
> Jukka OH6LI
>
>
> 2013/3/5 Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>:
> ...
>> (contesting is NOT a sport) it gets much more difficult to advocate and
>> defend it in our "Always look at the bright side of life"-style (to quote
>> Monthy Python).
>> 73, Chris (DL8MBS)
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