Like W4BQF, I can carry on a QSO at 100+ WPM. Personally, I like the tone bout 500 Hz.
Don't forget that a square wave is made up of a sine wave + its odd harmonics. The higher the fundamental freq, the higher those first few, and most important, odd harmonics are. This can cause the waveform to lose its sharp edges and sound mushy when there is attenuation of those higher freqs due to hearing loss. Re musical ability, I played clarinet in jr high school and early high school, but gave it up because they required performing in marching band at the weekend football games - this interfered with contesting! I can play a little piano by ear, but never took lessons - one of my regrets... I recall having this CW/music discussion with K1AR and others at the contesting suite in Dayton many years ago - just about everyone in the group had some musical ability. Barry W2UP -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/CW-listening-pitch-tp7599535p7599706.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
