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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