[Elecraft] More precise pitch options?

[Gary Smith]

No.

If it's good enough for me, it's good enough for you comes to mind.

73,

Gary
> 
> > Aren't we getting just the least bit pampered and trivial?  The 
> tale of the
> > Princess and the Pea comes to mind.
> > 
> > I'd like an option for a leather-bound case and front panel, so I could
> > stroke it and have the feel of leather.  I miss the feel of leather.
> > 
> > 73, Guy.
> > 
> > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Jessie Oberreuter <
> > joberreu-elecraft at moselle.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > *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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