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Originally Posted by Hawkey01
I do not have aids but now border line with the audio tests. Have a certain frequency band that is very poor. I am sure many of us - Engrs and RO's have similar problems.
I am afraid the TV does have to be somewhat louder than it used to be, especially with the mumbling they seem to love now.
Neville
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Mine seems to be in the Nagging band - don't tell my dear wife!
Back in about 1970-71 I lived with my parents less than a mile from the main transmitters at Portishead. I sometimes delivered the Sunday Papers to the duty engineers there. (My parents are still there, the transmitters not) One day when I was alone in the house I could hear morse code clear as a bell (as a 15-16 year old I could still hear sine wave tones above 23 khz! Woof!) Searching all over the house I finally opened the airing cupboard to find that the morse code was coming from the hot water tank!
My theory to this day was that the skirting board heating - long length of copper pipe with aluminium fins was picking up the very powerful transmittions which were then being amplified by the hot water tank (which had no immersion heater) - Never heard them again.
Now after screaming main engine turbochargers and too hot to wear hearing protectors for a full watch, my hearing is not what - what? it used to be
I saw a program on TV recently - Abandoned Engineering, about the Russian Over the Horizon Radar - I remember on one ship, being in the Radio Room (chatting with the Sparky - I was too Ham Fisted with a soldering Iron to ever be one) when the Russian Woodpecker started making it's self heard - quite a spooky sound and I bet rather annoying to you guys.
Finally silenced by the Chernobyl Disaster. The transmitters were built near by, because of the huge amount of energy they needed.