[CQ-Contest] Hallucinations
Katsuhiro Kondou
kondou at voyackey.net
Wed Nov 30 23:39:34 EST 2016
In article <CAJFNq0H+Ysw8tZRhbuoUFA-RmjON-Dut74=SygExB8=8ouF0sg at mail.gmail.com>,
Art Boyars <artboyars at gmail.com> wrote,
on "Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:34:08 -0500";
> "I was hearing CW coming from the refrigerator motor on Sunday night."
>
> That's no hallucination, nor is it from sleep deprivation. I get that
> after every CW contest where I operate more than a few hours. It's just a
> continuation of the wishful thinking that makes you oh-so-sure that there
> is a caller in that QRN.
For my case, this happened 30 years ago when there was no noise cancelling
headphones. I tended to make it loud to listen to weak signals in multi-ops
environment. I've never experienced this since I used noise cancelling
headphones, with which I can listen to the audio at minimun volume.
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Katsuhiro 'Don' Kondou, JH5GHM
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