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@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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