[TenTec] early morning questions

[Steve Ellington]

Invest a whopping $20 in MFJ's headphones. They are lightweight,
comfortable, have individual volume and individual tone controls, very long
cord and the adapter for both popular sizes of phone plugs. If you go for
"high fidelity" you will likely end up hearing a lot of hiss from your audio
amplifier anyway. I adjust the tone control to bypass most of the hiss.
As for binaural cw; Audio of two different phases are fed to each ear
resulting in a perception of ambience. I haven't heard this and I don't
really believe it's goal is to enhance the ability to copy cw rather it's
probably designed to sound 'cool, groovey and awesome' then quickly wear
off.

Steve
N4LQ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clark Savage Turner" <csturner@falcon.csc.calpoly.edu>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 8:31 AM
Subject: [TenTec] early morning questions


>
> I found myself in need of headphones this morning (very, very early!) and
> wonder if anyone has thoughts on the subject.  I have a boom headset from
> Telex (made for pilots, pretty cheap but works OK), but the earpieces are
> very restricted fidelity and impermeable plastic that is not comfortable
> on my head for very long.  However, after all that, my main goal is to be
> able to dig out weak signals from noise (by the way, what is the
> "binaural" claim that is made by the Timewave DSP ads in QST?  Is this
> useful?)
>
> I prefer some fidelity (I prefer to adjust at the radio's IF and AF stages
> rather than have the phones do it) and really want some comfort.  Has
> anyone tried using decent stereo phones from Radio Shack with any success?
>
> Clark
> WA3JPG
>
>
>
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