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-elecr...@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 > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
