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RE: Fairfield County Sports Car Club Event Oct. 28th

To: "'Pat Kelly'" <lollipop487@home.com>, "NER (E-mail)"
Subject: RE: Fairfield County Sports Car Club Event Oct. 28th
From: "Matthew D. Murray" <MDMurray@gwns.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 09:33:07 -0700
Was this before or after SFR lost the previously mentioned site?

Matt Murray

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Pat Kelly [SMTP:lollipop487@home.com]
        Sent:   Tuesday, October 02, 2001 12:15 PM
        To:     Matthew D. Murray; NER (E-mail); Teamdotnet (E-mail)
        Subject:        Re: Fairfield County Sports Car Club Event Oct.
28th (Connecticu t)

        Matt,
            I don't recall how we got there, but we've been using the A
rating for
        over 12 years. Seems like the A rating was the closest to what
humans hear.
        We even hired a noise person to double check our readings (at $1000
a day!).
        --Pat Kelly
        ----------
        >From: "Matthew D. Murray" <MDMurray@gwns.com>
        >To: "NER (E-mail)" <nersolo@ner.org>, "'FCSCC List (E-mail)"
        <FCSCC-MEM@yahoogroups.com>, "Teamdotnet (E-mail)"
<autox@autox.team.net>
        >Subject: FW: Fairfield County Sports Car Club Event Oct.  28th
(Connecticu t)
        >Date: Tue, Oct 2, 2001, 9:12 AM
        >

        >Seems like we should use a "C" weighting.
        >
        >Matt Murray
        >
        >-----Original Message-----
        >From: Jay Mitchell [SMTP:jemitchell@compuserve.com]
        ><mailto:[SMTP:jemitchell@compuserve.com]> 
        >Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 12:01 PM
        >To: Matthew D. Murray
        >Cc: Evolution-Discussions (E-mail)
        >Subject: Re: Fairfield County Sports Car Club Event Oct.  28th
        >(Connecticut)
        >
        >Matt Murray wrote:
        > > So if we want to be cautious, perhaps we should be using "C."
        >
        >Definitely.
        > > Well > transmitted low frequencies (as well as high freqs.)
could
        >annoy the locals. > True?
        >
        >Definitely. I think we can safely say that the "boom-car"
phenomenon annoys
        >some folks (can't imagine why ;<), and there's very little sound
above 100
        >Hz being radiated outside the car by stereos of this persuasion.
        > >  Relying on a neighbor who can only hear 1k to 3k might be a bit
        > > risky.  :^)
        >
        >"A" weighting doesn't _eliminate_ low frequencies, it just gives
them less,
        >well, weight. However, almost any broadband noise source will
produce higher
        >SPL measured with "C" weighting than with "A." So "C" weighting is
the
        >"safest" from the POV of neighborhood annoyance, but a bit more
difficult
        >wrt muffling requirements.
        >Jay
        >
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