I have some tinnitus (sp?) so, when things are really, really quiet, I hear things that really aren't there! Aside from that, a recent hearing test indicated my hearing was normal for my age (67) and I hear equally well (or equally poor!) with both ears.
My experience with the NR has been somewhat the opposite of yours. I love to back the RF gain down just a tad, turn on the NR (don't remember the exact setting right off the top of my head) to where I have to strain to hear band noise. Then, when a signal does appear, it sort of magically jumps out of the speakers! Art - N4PJ On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Fred Jensen <k6...@foothill.net> wrote: > I operate mainly CW and while the NB is very effective for me on CW, > I've never seen much advantage to the NR at narrow CW bandwidths. I had > occasion to be on SSB this week attempting to work several SOTA summit > activations, and tried the NR. At the wider SSB BW, it made a great > difference. > > With NR however, even at F1-1 [which I think means least aggressive], > while the nasty line noise really fell, the SSB signal acquired a > profound echo which made it very hard to understand. I'm running FW4.39 > and whatever DSP came with it. Is this reverberation [it's more like > that than a distinct echo, like talking through a long pipe] normal? > The further "up" the NR scale I went, the more pronounced it got, and > beyond F1-4, the signal was indecipherable. > > Full Disclosure: My hearing sucks and has since one night in 1965 on > the other side of the planet, so me telling you what something sounds > like can be somewhat of a joke. I can't use my hearing aids under my > headphones, so I run the AF gain high ["afterburner roar" or close], but > the reverb effect definitely is controlled by the NR. > > 73, > > Fred K6DGW > - Northern California Contest Club > - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012 > - www.cqp.org > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > 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:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
