On 7/11/2011 9:15 AM, Jim Brown wrote: > Ed, > > I understand your more severe hearing loss, but I was responding IN PART > to many others on the list with much less several loss than you, and can > use RXEQ to solve their own problems, at least until their hearing loss > progresses.
I appreciate this thread. I too am both nearly deaf, and even with level and frequency correction, I can't understand someone speaking behind me. My loss occurred all at once from an RPG explosion one night, and I've been told "the rocks on your hair cells are gone" so it affects my sense of balance as well. The latest hearing aids the VA gave me are Phonak multi-program DSP gizmos, and are many light years ahead of anything else I've had. They run at "afterburner roar" and do not work under the Heil Proset I got from Elecraft. However I do get to walk around with $6K of fairly effective micro-electronics stuffed into my ears thanks to very generous American taxpayers. Thank you all, I hope I deserve it. SSB has been pretty much a non-starter since my hearing disappeared, and I stick to CW most of the time. On Jim's patient advice [we know each other], I have been able to tailor the K3 Rx EQ to get an overall range of about 30 dB differential correction, and SSB on a quiet band, without QRM and accents, has become semi-usable for me -- first time in 40 years. 75 or 80 dB of correction would be better, but the 30 or so does really help. It took some time to work it out, and the final settings, while "similar" to the programs for my aids, are a little non-intuitive. One of Jim's suggestions was to go slow. Make a change, and then evaluate it over several days or a week under various band conditions. I, of course, expected to sit down and get this done in 10 mins :-) So, if you are hearing-impaired with a K3, I would urge you to spend some time with the Rx equalizer. You *can* make a difference with it. My hearing aids have a teeny little multi-wire connector inside the battery compartment they use to program them. I've wondered if there was a way to use that to feed flat audio from the radio into them for correction, but so far, no progress on that front. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011 - www.cqp.org ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
