[CQ-Contest] Post-contest reflexes

[steve.root]

After a big CW contest, everything sounds like CW to me.  Birds singing, dogs barking, music, toilets flushing.  I'm leaning in to copy everything I hear.  Takes a little while to become "normal" again.

73 Steve K0SR


> On July 3, 2020 4:20 PM Art Boyars <artboyars at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> 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
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