[ARC5] T-30 throat mic.

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

When I first heard of, then saw, the subject mic many years ago, before I 
knew anything at all about radio, I thought it was a very bad idea for any of 
several reasons.

For one thing, I could not imagine how properly articulated sound could have 
gotten through the stupid thing.

I also wondered who could have thought up the idea. It didn't seem to be 
very-well-thought-out to me, but since I didn't know anything at that point, I 
just figured that someone must have known far more about it than I did.

I do remember holding my JT-30 against my throat, talking and asking hams 
on the other end of my DX-35 if they could tell what I was saying. As I 
remember it, most said all they could hear was a kind of growling, but they 
couldn't make out any words.

This was in 1957 or 1958 as I remember it.

Ken W7EKB