[WWYC] 48 hrs

[Teemu S Korhonen]

Staying awake for 48hrs

I attended to the CCF contest meeting this year in finland and Ville OH2MM
had a very interesting speach about staying awake for 48 hrs. Ville is a Md
so he has done some research over the years and we know his god contest
results from EA8.

Ville started experimenting with 48h contesting a logtime ago and now he has
a nice system.

First of all when eating your body gets tired because of the food-process
going on in your guts.... Drinking doesn't do this, but you might end up in
the latrine for 47,5 hrs;  if drinking to much!

So what he does is simply only to eat 2 small sandwiches and have 2-4 cups
of black coffee during the whole event. This keeps you alive......

Also he points out that sleeping to much before the contest gets you in a
unbalance, the best thing to do is to sleep as little as possible the week
ahead the contest eg. 4 hrs every night, I't will be tough as hell the first
nights but after a while your body will get used to a little sleep. This
fenomena is the same for those working at night, usually they sleep less
then regular people.

Ville also pointed out as the questions from the crowd started to drop
in.... how about coffein drugs...etc that this system might not work for
you, the whole thing about staying awake for 48 hrs is purely psycological,
if you belive in what you do you will achieve the goal !

/Teemu SMØW - SMØWKA
www.sm0wka.com
hamradio@svessa.se


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