[Elecraft] OT: Public service announcement (DVT)

[James F. Boehner]

Wayne,

Thank you for the PSA (pun intended-important to check as well).

Thanks for reminding us of the need to remain physically active.

‘73 de Jim N2ZZ


-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Wayne Burdick
Sent: Friday, May 2, 2025 1:55 PM
To: elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: Public service announcement (DVT)

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
>
>
> --
> Elecraft, Inc.
>


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