[Elecraft] Hearing aids and K3

[Bob K6UJ]

The difference is with an outboard equalizer you can quickl adjust  the audio to your needs with the various 
voicees you receive. Very fast, turn the pot control.  The menu change takes too long for quick changes for each 
signal.  You will need a different adjustment with different voices and being able to adjust quickly is the key.

Bob
K6UJ


On Aug 9, 2013, at 5:09 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:

> That's exactly what I did, on the advice of the below quoted author, and it is very effective.  Admittedly, my hearing is probably worse than many, and I'd gladly take a few more dB of equalization, but what the K3 provides is free [not counting the cost of the K3 :-)] and it does work.  Just go slowly when working with it.  I was pretty much giving up on it until Jim counseled me, "One change at a time, try it out under varying conditions."  I keep a station journal [separate from my log] with notes and things, I used it to record my subjective results and the settings I made.
> 
> I don't think an external equalizer is any easier to adjust than the K3 internal one, it just may give you more gain.  At some point, more gain becomes a non-starter, my Heil headphones or the speaker start to overload.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
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> 
> On 8/9/2013 4:35 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> 
>> The RXEQ built into the K3 is capable of about 36 dB of combined high
>> frequency boost and low frequency cut.  This won't be enough to
>> compensate for really severe hearing loss, but it can an effective
>> solution for the majority of folks. As a starting point, set the four
>> lowest bands to maximum cut, leave the fifth band at zero, and the
>> remaining bands gradually increasing in boost until it sounds good to
>> you. Those with more serious loss will usually want boost be greater on
>> those higher bands. The most important octave for speech is 2 kHz, 1 kHz
>> is next, then 4 kHz. So with severe hearing loss, you will generally
>> want the top three bands up full.
>> 
>> I would do this before I would consider an external equalizer.
> 
> 
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