Please post my ad

[David Fuchs]

Priced lowered (again).  For sale a K2 kit with the following options:  KSB2,  KDSP2,  
FDIMP,  KPCA-F,  KIO2,  KUSB,  KBT2,  KAT100-2,  EC2,  and ETS2.  
All of these are New and un-built.  The S/N is 006972.  It includes the pre-wound Toroids and manuals.  
$ 1,000.00 firm.  Thank You!
 
David
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[ussv dharma]

since there is so much "ado" about hearing aids...I just solved a problem for Veterans and hearing aids.,

I did the internet research of "chief of staff" meetings and minutes and presented Honolulu VA Chief of Prosthetics with the info.

IF you have 179 or more days of Honorable Service, retired or not, you are entitled to two hearing aids (at VA expense) if your hearing loss impacts on your daily living.

Have your primary care Dr. certify this.....I now have mine and they were $3500 each.

Great Grandmas Susan

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If you don't change direction you WILL arrive exactly where you're headed!! Susan Meckley, Skipper W7KFI-mm  AFA9SM                         USSV DHARMA 


--- On Fri, 7/23/10, Casual Observer <[hidden email]> wrote:

> From: Casual Observer <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [Elecraft] Please post my ad
> To: [hidden email]
> Date: Friday, July 23, 2010, 8:50 AM
>
> Priced lowered (again).  For sale a K2 kit with the
> following options:  KSB2,  KDSP2, 
> FDIMP,  KPCA-F,  KIO2,  KUSB, 
> KBT2,  KAT100-2,  EC2,  and ETS2. 
> All of these are New and un-built.  The S/N is
> 006972.  It includes the pre-wound Toroids and
> manuals. 
> $ 1,000.00 firm.  Thank You!
>  
> David
> Home [phone], 
> Cell [phone],   
> [hidden email] 
>        
>         
>           
>  
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[k6dgw]

ussv dharma wrote:

> IF you have 179 or more days of Honorable Service, retired or not,
> you are entitled to two hearing aids (at VA expense) if your hearing
> loss impacts on your daily living.

The VA has given me aids for years, and they replace them with new
technology ones periodically.  For the last 7 years I've had about
$6,500 worth of fantastic DSP microelectronics stuffed in my ears thanks
to the US Taxpayer.   They are supposed to have a life of 3-4 years
these are going strong.  I certainly hope I deserve this gift, they
really have changed my life.  We're going down to see the Pirates of
Penzance tonight and I WILL be able to hear the orchestra and actors :-)

That said, for anyone with hearing problems and a K3, while my aids
don't work under my Heil headphones [they feed back ... I can't hear it
but it distorts the audio I can hear], you will be very surprised at
what you can do with the K3 RX equalizer alone, it just takes some
experimentation.  While it has +-16dB range for each band, I was able to
approximate 32dB range by lowering the lower frequencies and raising the
higher frequencies, and then turning up the little external audio amp to
bring the lower frequencies back up.  My wife tells me the higher
frequencies are distorted and deafeningly loud for her in the
headphones, but I can't hear that anyway and as a result I can copy SSB
with comfort in mild noise and QRM, although contests are a real struggle.

I got my amplifier at Radio Shack, it plugs directly into the headphone
jack on the back of my K3, has three outputs, and runs on a couple AA
cells forever, it seems.  This scheme does not fully restore my hearing
of course, below 1KHz or so it's about 90 dB down, and gone above
1.3-1.4 KHz, but it's brought rag chew SSB back into my hobby.

I don't know if the +-16dB per band limit on the RX EQ is an arbitrary
value or constrained by something else in the DSP, but an option to have
more than that, if possible, could get Elecraft some strong ADA points :-)

73,

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