Amen, Mike. All long contests should feature 20 minutes of on-air activity followed by 10 minutes of calisthenics and be scored like ( QSOs x sections ) / ( blood pressure x cholesterol ).
Wayne N6KR On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM Mike Fatchett W0MU <w...@w0mu.com> wrote: > I have been protesting loudly about 48 hour contests with no forced > breaks and how bad that is for the operators. The sponsors don't seem > to care. A real shame. During one of the Iraq wars we lost a reporter > because of this. He was stuck in an armored vehicle for a very long > time unable to really move around and died from this. > > None of us are getting any younger. > > Stay active, stay alive! > > W0MU > > On 5/2/2025 11:43 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > No, DVT is not, in this context, the rate of change of voltage over time. > > But it is about things not changing enough. > > > > I was thinking the other day about how many sequential hours we all spend > > sitting on a cross-country flight. This was on my mind because I have one > > coming up -- to Dayton, Ohio. Then I thought about an article I read > > recently, reminding me how sitting for long periods of time just isn't > good > > for human anatomy. They say you need to get up every 20 minutes or so and > > walk around, stretch, feed your pets, get the mail, whatever. Anything > but > > sit for hours on end. Pun intended. > > > > Why? DVT...deep-vein thrombosis. (I hear you saying, "WTF?" But in > > fairness, I did put "OT" in the subject line.) > > > > In short, prolonged inactivity can cause DVT and complications thereof. > > I'll spare you the details, as I'm not qualified (just Google it), and > I've > > never had it myself. Let's just say the consequences can be scary. > > > > Then I thought of ham radio. At times we're at the inert, > > four-paws-in-the-air, bleeding edge of the bell curve in terms of > sitting. > > Not just for hours. For some events it's large fractions of a day. > > > > With renewed awareness I now use nannyware to periodically break me out > of > > a techno-trance. > > > > Though avoidance of DVT was never a stated goal for our product > offerings, > > it's a happy coincidence that our portable gear gives some of us another > > excuse to get out of our chairs. In hindsight I can see the benefit to > our > > customers at trade shows: they're more than their share of ageless, > > timeless, energetic and athletic. > > > > Anything that encourages movement is in this category, of course, from > > high-band HTs to bicycle mobile to climbing your tower. > > > > My advice...keep on truckin'. And thanks for the bandwidth. > > > > 73, > > Wayne > > N6KR > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to n...@elecraft.com -- Elecraft, Inc. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
