[Elecraft] More precise pitch options?

[Jessie Oberreuter]

*smile*

      Garry, I feel your pain!  I tend to tune stations to "exact" pitches 
and just get my side-tone "close enough".  My K2 is presently singing a 
slightly sharp Bb at 470hz.  The whole bleedin' world is out of tune, so I 
usually just suffer, but I would do a little happy dance if I could tune 
the side-tone more precisely :).

      Of course, even those of us with perfect pitch have to deal with the 
fact that, like Heisenberg, you can't have perfect pitch and perfect 
tuning at the same time.  I'm always asking folks to sing individual 
pitches a bit higher or lower than the piano to get the chords to lock!

-kb7psg


On Sun, 11 Dec 2011, Gary Smith 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
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