I don't know about you guys with REAL glasses, but I am now wearing
"dime-store readers" when I operate contests. I hook the ear hooks over the
tops of the headphone ear covers.
With the dime-store glasses, the fact that the ear hooks are a couple inches
higher than if they are hooked on my ears doesn't seem to make things look
any different in the part where you look through with your eyes.
Growing old is hell.
Mark, N5OT
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From: "W0UN -- John Brosnahan" <shr@swtexas.net>
To: "RICHARD BOYD" <ke3q@msn.com>; "cq-contest" <CQ-Contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] GLASSES & HEADPHONES
> 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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