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@home.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <W0uo@cs.com>
To: <tree@kkn.net>; <cq-contest@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@kr6x.com Mon Mar 19 04:58:25 2001
From: Leigh S. Jones" <kr6x@kr6x.com (Leigh S. Jones)
Subject: [CQ-Contest] re: Casual contesters...
References: <01bd01c0b019$a4da1300$47ba65d8@computer>
Message-ID: <0e6901c0b031$3c61c3a0$ede3c23f@kr6x.org>
Single band entries are not necessarily casual contesters...
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