[Elecraft] OT: Public service announcement (DVT)

[Wayne Burdick]

In the interest of not letting someone else beat me to it, let me add....

...maybe we have a double bottom-line.

73,
Wayne
N6KR


On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 10:43 AM Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> 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
>
>
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