[SCCC] K6NR ARRL SS CW

[Glenn Rattmann]

Good job, Dana!
I couldn't be active this time due to out of town family house guests 
here for a few days... you know how it goes, sometimes.
Here's a little trick I've been doing the past few years, that might 
be interesting to others on the list too.  Actually, I'm sure some
others are doing a variant of this already.

I don't know your whole situation there... but one thing I've been 
doing occasionally in the shack, to break up the sitting periods,
is to stand up at the desk.  Especially in Run-mode, because I don't 
have to tune the knob very much.  Maybe reach for the RIT, once in a while...

A Vari-Desk would be nice... but most of us have a mature station 
installation at a standard desk height.  When I need a break from the chair,
I stand up... put a small cardboard box on the desk, taped tightly 
closed for stability.  This elevates the keyboard to the height I 
want, and I wear my headset with long-enough cord.  I leave the
CW paddle lower on the desk because mostly everything is done from 
the keyboard now.... paddle is only needed occasionally.

While CQing and standing, and working guys, I even do leg-lifts 
(walk-in-place) sometimes, to stimulate leg circulation and flex the 
knees.  So I might do the standup trick for only 20-25 minutes, but
when I get back in the chair I feel refreshed and ready to sit for a 
while again.

I remember reading years ago about Donald Rumsfeld (SecDef) and his 
Pentagon office routine.  He had a 15-20ft wide, curved desk, at 
stand-up working
height, and there was NO chair.  He spent the entire day standing, 
moving along that curved work-surface, dealing with different 
projects positioned in discreet piles, and
never sat down at all.

73,
Glenn K6NA

At 09:10 AM 11/4/2019, you wrote:
>                   ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW - 2019
>
>
>Call: K6NR
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>Operator(s): K6NR
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>Station: K6NR
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>
>Class: Single Op HP
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>QTH: ORG
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>Operating Time (hrs): 13.5
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>
>Summary:
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>  Band  QSOs
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>------------
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>   160:
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>    80:   67
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>    40:  216
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>    20:  366
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>    15:   69
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>    10:
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>------------
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>Total:  718  Sections = 81  Total Score = 116,316
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>
>Club: Southern California Contest Club
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>
>Comments:
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>
>Fun contest as always, and the conditions were pretty good, especially on
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>20 and 40.  I am limited by how many hours I can spend in the chair, which
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>is a good deal less than 24.  I missed PR and NL for the clean sweep, I
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>never heard PR on and heard NL once calling someone else.
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>
>73,  Dana