[CQ-Contest] 48 hour straight contest operation and human output

[Nat Heatwole]

I seem to recall that KQ2M stayed in the chair for 24 hours straight during
an IARU contest several years back. I don't know how Bob handled calls of
nature during the contest (or even if nature called during the 24 hours).

73,
Nat WZ3AR


-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Franki ON5ZO
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:58 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] 48 hour straight contest operation and human output

Gentlemen, forgive me bringing up the topic...
Quite a lot has been written here about how to stay awake for 48 hours. Some

can do it, others can't.

What I really would like to know is: how do you stay in the chair for 48 
hours and ignore the call of nature? I don't think the human body can retain

its output for 48 hours?

I see some SOAB reports on 3830 where the operator says he was on for 48 
hours.
Does this mean he ran away for some relief a few times but did not take 
these short breaks into account?
Do they have a 'special operating chair', if you know what I mean?

This to me seems harder than stay awake. 48h straight ops: how do you resist

the call of nature?

73 de Franki ON5ZO