A couple of weeks ago at the Kalamazoo Hamfest, I bought an external speaker for two bucks. I hooked it up to the IC-746PRO, and was so pleased with the way it sounded that I started not wearing headphones when operating CW.
After a while, though, I noticed that I wasn’t sending as well as I usually do. I was making a lot more mistakes than normal. I plugged in the headphones, and my sending went back to normal.
I thought this kind of odd at first, but after thinking about it, I guess it makes sense. With the headphones on, I don’t get distracted very easily, and when trying to send at 25 wpm, it doesn’t take much of a distraction to slip in an extra dit.
I guess I’m either going to have to stick with the headphones or practice sending listening to the speaker.
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