Jim, It takes longer to gouge in-ear phones out of your ear canal than it does to fling off a pair of over-ear cans. That's the problem. A piece of radio gear may at any instant decide to go ballistic and produce a loud buzz or whistle that can damage you. Keeping the AGC on is not a certain protection.
Oliver W6ODJ On 26 Jan. 2013, at 11:15 AM, Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: > On 12/26/2013 11:06 AM, Oliver Johns wrote: >> I'd worry about sudden surges of high-intensity audio. > > YES -- this is why I consider turning off AGC a really bad idea, especially > in a contesting environment where you have the RF gain cranked to copy a very > weak station and a guy calls you with a signal well over S9. > >> They happen even in the best families. Your ears could be badly damaged >> before you could yank the Etymotics out. I'd never, ever use in-ear >> headphones in a ham-rig setting. > > Absolutely no difference between in-ear and circumaural to the extent that > the transducers are linear. > > 73, Jim K9YC > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
