Why not set it to 660Hz, which is a half-octave up from A? Er, maybe this is TOO high a pitch, but at least it should be close to dead-on to a real note on the keyboard... Should be right on top of E.
73, matt W6NIA On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:03:37 -0500, you wrote: >This probably is of little interest to most but I would like the >ability to fine tune the pitch in closer than 10 Hz increments. I'm a >musician and have for practical purposes, perfect pitch. I have my >pitch set at 590 which is the closest approximation to the proper >pitch for "D" (which is 587.33) When I have the pitch set to 590, I >know it's almost a "D" note but it's a bit disquieting at the same >time. > >A = 440 and while I can select this, it's low a tone to be pleasing >on CW. A pure note on the scale would be such a pleasure to hear, >much more psychoacousticly pleasing. > >Actual frequencies for all the individual notes are here: >http://www.piano-tuners.org/history/pitch.html > >Any way the powers that be might also allow an entry to pitch from >the keypad, like when we use it to select Rf frequency? > >Thanks, >Gary >KA1J >______________________________________________________________ >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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
