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: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Wayne Burdick Sent: Friday, May 2, 2025 1:55 PM To: elecraft <[email protected]> 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 <[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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
