[WWYC] 48h operating

[Goran ANDRIC, S55OO.com]

Short notice that I remembered very well

CQWW SSB SOSB 40m (S50C) 1995.  - I love 40
Awake 46.5hours.
Off 1.5hour becuase power generator broke and my club friends were repairing
it meanwhile I went to sleep. Last hour I was totaly unconcetrated but
manage to end with #1 EU 4WW.
Second good/bad thing in same contest was that I was working the contest
with broken knee and got free exit from the Army baraks.
I drink RedBull but doesn't help at all. Later that night I drink few sips
of wine and I was laughing as crazy...(Already end of ctest)

RIG: IC735 twice, home made QRO 1500w, 2el rotory quad @35m, 1el loop, Inv V
Location: Mt. Menina 1508m a.s.l.

CUL CQWW but don't know where yet

73,
Goran ANDRIC, The S55OO.com

p.s. I guess we had also some snow

p.p.s. Other operations were M/M, M/S or Single band high/low bands so not
much for whole...maybe twice or three times on 40m same time or less


----- Original Message -----
From: 9A6XX <wwyc@rkptcp.ice.hr>
To: <wwyc@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 7:43 AM
Subject: [WWYC] 48h operating


> Hey dudes,
> I've been reading a bit on CQ-Contest reflector about
> 48hours-non-stop-operating during a contest. As CQWW contests are comming
> starting from the end of September (RTTY, SSB, CW) has anyone been
thinking
> about going SO for whole 48 hours? And how many of you ever did 48h
contest?
> If anyone did at all?
> In this upcoming WW RTTY I'll probably be active with 9A5AEI as a M/S LP
> while for WW SSB I have plans to join 9A1P (also with WWYCer IK3UNA in the
> team) but for WW CW I plan to stick here at 9A7P and operate SO-48hours
for
> the first time.
>
> I'd like to hear some expiriences altough maybe you never worked 48 hours
in
> row. How to stay awake and keep head cold all the time???
> All the ideas from jumping up and down in the seat to drinking liters of
> beer are welcome.
> If you tryed 48hours and you failed what do you think the major problem
was?
> Not enuf motivation? Wrong food? Not enough sleeping before the contest?
> Nobody around you to keep you awake?
>
> >From my expiriences and I've done about 20 full time 24hrs contests I
> learned that red bull cant help (that was the biggest mistake as I almost
> ended contest in toilet instead of on the air). Fresh food and fruits as
> well as cookies works fine with me, and food with sauce or/and meat would
> always made me more sleepy.
> However, do you take any vitamins or drugs and which are they? hehehe :)
> I also tried milk stuff, but that aint working too much either. Gets no
good
> untill the contest end without fridge active. :)
> I know sometimes it really helped when somebody was watching or just being
> there beside you to keep you awake but people get bored of watching me in
> same position after 10 minutes :)
> So,.... come with your toughts, and maybe these days we'll all be able to
> play 48 hours and not to halucinate too much during those ones :)
>
> Hrle - 9A6XX
>
> p.s. any YCer plans to be in Zagreb Hamradio Fest for 2 weeks?
>
>
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