[Elecraft] Off Topic Hearing Aids

[Fred Jensen]

I have Phonak hearing aids.  The audiologist at the VA had one of these 
and let me try it out [it didn't look exactly the same as in the web 
page, maybe an earlier model].  I fed the headphone out from my K3 to 
it.  It worked.  Not fantastic however.  My hearing aids were still on 
and I got a lot of room and ambient noise QRM, and I missed having the 
cans on.  The Phonak thing isn't cheap.

I have a small outboard audio amplifier that I use with the K3/K2/KX1, I 
can get enough audio to drive the Heil cans to distortion, and the K3 RX 
equalizer helps some on SSB which is not one of my usual modes anyway.

Maybe he could get a loan from his provider to try it out before getting 
it.  Hearing is a fickle sense ... what works for one is useless for 
another.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2010 Cal QSO Party 2-3 Oct 2010
- www.cqp.org

Mike Short wrote:
> My dad recently got fitted with new hearing aids, and is a ham. 
> 
> They are here:
> http://www.phonak.com/com/b2c/en/products/accessories/communication/icom/ove
> rview.html
> 
> He did not get the iCOM unit yet, but will probably soon. Any hints, ideas,
> etc to help get him back on the air?