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Re: [CQ-Contest] Amplified headfones

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Amplified headfones
From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:34:17 -0500
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Tom might also have a look at the MFJ Speech Intelligibility Enhancer 
(MFJ-616).  Martin Jue wears hearing aids, and I understand he personally 
godfathered the addition of this unit to the line.  There's a review in QST for 
April 2001.

73, Pete N4ZR

At 10:09 PM 11/21/2006, Eric Hilding wrote:
>Tom, W7WHY, wrote:
>
>> With my hearing slowly getting worse every year, I noticed this year I had a
>> hard time in the SS.  I am now wearing hearing aids and it is hard to get
>> them adjusted right without squealing or not being loud enough.  Without
>> them I have to turn the volume almost all the way up on the receiver to
>> hear, and that distorts the signals.
>>
>> Does anyone use amplified headphones? I wouldn't be interested in some whiz
>> bang type I'd have to pay 4 or 5 hundred dollars for.  I would need some
>> kind I could modify to use the Heil boom mike with.  It would be nice not
>> having to mess with the hearing aids when contesting.  73 and TIA
>> Tom W7WHY
>
>Sorry to hear about your challenging situation there, Tom.  I'm sure you are 
>not alone in Contesting-Land.
>
>Umh, have you considered the possibility of just taking the hearing aids out, 
>and CRANKING-UP-THE-VOLUME (I said: CRANKING-UP-THE-VOLUME) on your Radio???
>
>If you have hearing aids crafted for certain frequency range boosts, etc., 
>then what about getting an inexpensive outboard preamp or mini-audio mixer of 
>some type, inserting that in your headphone line, and tweaking the frequency 
>ranges where you may need either a boost or roll off?  It would seem to me 
>this might be a more comfortable approach, and possibly less expensive than 
>trying to find suitable headphones with the widgetry and than having to figure 
>out how to Rube Goldberg  a Heil boom on them.
>
>Radio Shack might have something!
>
>Just some thoughts, OM.
>
>73...
>
>RIck, K6VVA
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