[CQ-Contest] Contest ears

[Don Chisholm]

As a musician, I value my hearing above all other senses, and I think I can
hear pretty well (when my head is screwed on straight).  When I played the
.wav file through my computer speakers, I heard the echo RAT clear as day.

I thought it was a joke, so I had my roommate (who is not a ham) listen.  He
could not even tell what was there.  After I explained it, he still couldn't
even tell that there was a "beep" in the static.  After lashing up my Heil
heaset to the computer and fiddling around with the volume, he still only
heard "static".

As a  matter of fact, he said, "Maybe if you got that static out of the way,
I could hear the beeps" . . . .

:)

73
Don
WX3M
who now feels good about his hearing

Don Chisholm
don.chisholm at home.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <W0uo at cs.com>
To: <tree at kkn.net>; <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 0020
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest ears


 >
 > Tree,
 >
 >     About 8 or 9 years ago my son and I worked a CQ 160 SSB contest
multi-opr.
 >   I was logging and he was operating.  As I entered the calls on the
screen,
 > he gave them reports and I put the reports in the computer.  Sometime in
the
 > middle of the night he nudged me and said "I haven't heard the last
three".
 > Ears make the difference.
 >
 >     I believe that years ago in hamfests there used to be a contest to see
who
 > could copy the weakest signal.  Winners sometimes copied signals well
under
 > the noise.
 >
 >     Also, since I got the 599zx, I'm beginning to see that the better your
 > ears, the less you gain with DSP.
 >
 > Jim
 > W0UO/5
 >
 >
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>From Leigh S. Jones" <kr6x at kr6x.com  Mon Mar 19 04:58:25 2001
From: Leigh S. Jones" <kr6x at kr6x.com (Leigh S. Jones)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:58:25 -0800
Subject: [CQ-Contest] re:  Casual contesters...
References: <01bd01c0b019$a4da1300$47ba65d8 at computer>
Message-ID: <0e6901c0b031$3c61c3a0$ede3c23f at kr6x.org>


Single band entries are not necessarily casual contesters...


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