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 <[email protected]> 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. > -- Elecraft, Inc. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
