[CQ-Contest] Post-contest reflexes

[Art Boyars]

Back when I used to come home Sunday evenings from a Multi-Multi DX 'Test
at W4BVV or W3LPL, my driving would tend to be faster and more aggressive
than normal. Nowadays, operating from home, I've discovered a different
post-contest reflex.

My "home" computer and my "rig" computer are the same machine.  Whether I
am operating a contest, or paying bills, or doing an online meeting or
class, I sit in the same chair, at the same desk, in front of the same dual
monitors and the same radio.  For contests, the radio is turned on.

Friday morning I was in a small Zoom seminar.  The leader and one of the
eight students were using headsets with boom microphones.  (They have
little kids at home, and this class starts at 6 AM.)  When in Zoom I
sometimes use my ham radio headset to keep out the noise of the furnace/A-C
that is right behind me.  This time the headset was still lying on the desk
after RAC Canada Day, and I was using a web cam and mic.  Nonetheless, ...

Every time I wanted to talk, I reflexively went for the footswitch.

73, Art K3KU