[UK-CONTEST] Sleep, 48 Hour Contests, Multi op team selection and SO entry

[James Thresher]

And Caffeine ;)

73 James M3YOM

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Sent: 25 February 2009 11:12
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Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Sleep, 48 Hour Contests, Multi op team selection and SO entry

Drug testing just like "proper" sports with life time ban if positive? 
Better make Beer a legal drug for "Radio Sport".

Tom Wylie wrote:
> Gosh - the next thing we'll have drug testing for AFS?     hihi
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> Tom
> FDM
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> David, G3YYD wrote:
>> I was watching a programme last night concerning sleep and it seems 
>> that about 80% of the population have to get their sleep in. However 
>> there are 20% who can stay awake for considerable periods of time 
>> without compromising their ability to perform. May be an additional 
>> selection for Multi op contest team after operating skill is our 
>> inherited ability to go without sleep.
>>
>> The presenter, one of the 80%,  tried a drug which let him go for 48 
>> hours without sleep and without performance degradation. If anything 
>> it improved his reaction times. But the drug caused serious skin 
>> rash, which could if he repeated the drug have lethal consequences 
>> for him- so no short cuts for the 80%.
>>
>> Unfortunately for contest performance, I am not in the 20% minority 
>> but in the 80% majority and need to sleep during the normal sleeping 
>> periods. A definite disadvantage for 48 hour SO2R contesting and 
>> especially so for low band contests. Therefore for me single band 10m 
>> or 15m might be a better bet than all band entries. This in turn 
>> would influence what antennas to put on the mast.
>>
>> David G3YYD
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