[Elecraft] Echo and feedback un SSB

[Al Lorona]

It is actually better to hear yourself with a slight delay.

When you talk, you are not hearing yourself as others hear you due to something called 'bone conduction'. You can actually hear yourself through the mastoid bone. Have you ever listened to a recording of yourself and thought, "That's not how I sound!" That's because of bone conduction coloring your hearing of your own voice.

However, hearing yourself with a slight delay gives you a better idea of what you really sound like -- how others hear you. As long as the delay doesn't make you stutter -- what my wife, a speech pathologist, calls 'proprioceptive feedback'-- this delay is useful.

This is why I've always felt that the slight delay in the TX monitor is a good thing.

Al  W6LX