[Elecraft] OT: Public service announcement (DVT)

[Myron Schaffer]

Wayne,

On a personal note in early 2023 I’ve adopted a new diet (keto) and lost 60 lbs! I’m feeling so good and literally all of my aches and pains have vanished. I haven’t even caught a cold since then. Now, I actually can go for a hike with a 4-lb radio (gasps from the gram weenies) and be enjoyable. I’m 59, my BMI is 23 and I’m 6’-4”. I challenge our population to loose some weight buy a portable radio, get outside, and move. You won’t believe how good you can feel.

72,
Myron WVØH 

> On May 6, 2025, at 10:14 PM, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <w0mu at 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
>>> 
>>> 
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