[Elecraft] OT: Public service announcement (DVT)

[Mike Fatchett W0MU]

A bit more than I think we need but I like it!

On 5/6/2025 10:13 PM, Wayne Burdick 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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