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 <n...@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 <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 myronschaf...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ 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
