On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:42:22 -0800, Dick Dievendorff wrote: >Eric Scace, K3NA, is usually worth listening to (or reading) on a lot of >topics; psychoacoustics seem to be of particular interest to Eric. He has an >interesting post on the TopBand Forum on this topic:
>http://lists.contesting.com/_topband/2006-11/msg00205.html As a member of the Acoustical Society, Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society, and a student of psychoacoustics (the science of how we hear and interpret sound), I can vouch for the wisdom of Eric's advice. I've independently given the same advice. Someone else noted another good reason for listening to lower pitched CW -- hearing loss tends to be greatest at high frequencies! 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
