[Elecraft] Re: Zero beat hint and why 800hz maximum?

[Darwin, Keith]

-----Original Message-----
From:  O. Johns

> A pitch of 880 Hz is an exactly tuned A, twice the canonical 440 that
> orchestras are tuned to.  Musical people might like to use 880 to
avoid
> upsetting their sense of pitch by hearing an off-key sidetone all day.

Probably only an issue for the few of us who have perfect pitch.
Personally, I'd rather run 440 Hz than 880 Hz.  

Oh wait, I play bass.  I guess I should be using side tones below 100 Hz
:-).


> I'd suggest that, if the hardware registers permit it, the firmware
> on the K3 should allow a sidetone from 200 Hz to 1000 Hz by 10 Hz
increments.

The wider your range, the worse your accuracy.  
By the way, I find on my K2 that setting the sidetone readout to 730
actually gives an audio pitch of 740 Hz.  But setting to 440 actually
gives 440.  This is the result of granularity in the registers, I
assume.  On the K3, the actual pitches should be within 1Hz of their
settings, or so I hope.

I am SOOOO glad the days of 1000 Hz and 800 Hz sidetones are gone for
me.  Listening to those high pitches is irritating to most I suspect.  I
know it is for me.  I'd rather have 10 Hz steps over a range of say 300
to 700 than to have 50 Hz steps over a range of 200 to 1000.

In the end, it's just a side tone.  If it is a nice pure sine wave
somewhere between 400 Hz and 600 Hz, I'll be just as happy as can be!

YPTMV (Your preferred tone may vary)

- Keith N1AS -
- K3 711 -