[CQ-Contest] GLASSES & HEADPHONES

[W0UN -- John Brosnahan]

Boy, I'd be drilling holes in my headphones and making little arms
out front so that I could mount the glasses in some sort of
flip-down config.  Now that the frames are toast there is nothing
holding you back.

Sure seems if the arms did NOT go under the headphones but rather
attached TO the outside of the headphones that life would be simpler.

Well maybe I would not DRILL holes in the headphones but rather
attach some sort of framework with epoxy or industrial grade
Velcro (from Sam's Club).  Or I would DRILL a hole and mount
some studs (bolts) from the inside to allow a frame to be attached
with wing nuts.  If I wasn't so busy today I would be doing this and
getting the patent!

--John   W0UN

At 10:54 AM 3/18/2004, RICHARD BOYD wrote:

>I made a discovery on the perpetual problem of wearing glasses and 
>headphones at the same time -- the discomfort you get where the headphones 
>press on your ears, which press on your glasses behind your ear.
>
>I have a pair of glasses I really like(d), which was relatively new, but 
>one of the "arms" broke off -- not the screw falling out so that it could 
>be repaired, but it actually broke off, so it's basically 
>unrepairable.  The lenses are still unscratched, etc.  Bummer.
>
>Though this is not true of all pairs, this pair actually stays pretty 
>straight on my face with just one "arm."  I found this means there is no 
>headphone/ear fatigue on the side with no "arm."  If I had two pairs, one 
>with an arm on one side and the other with the arm on the other side, I 
>could swap them occasionally, and cut in half the time that either ear has 
>to endure this discomfort.
>
>I suppose a pince-nez type of glasses would totally solve it, though 
>perhaps with an increase in "nose fatigue."  hi.
>
>73
>
>Rich Boyd, KE3Q
>
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