[Elecraft] Bad Heil mic

[Dave Gingrich K9DC]

At 10:28 1/13/2002 +0000, Paul Hendershott wrote:

>Well, I decided to take a look inside the mic and was very disappointed.
>The bigger front mounted mic was not even connected. In fact, the leads
>to it had been clipped off in 3 different places(obviously intentional
>but to what purpose, I can't even guess). I also found the padding for
>the smaller top mic was buried under 2 pieces of foam - both folded in
>half making 4 layers in front of the mic.

I believe that is by design. At least mine is configured the same way (I 
have no idea what that element in the front is for either, it actually 
looks like a speaker to me). I used another vendor's mic before I got the 
MH2 and it behaved similarly.  Keep in mind that an average reading 
wattmeter will read roughly around 1 watt max when running 10w SSB, perhaps 
somewhat more if you have the compression cranked up to max. The LED meter 
on the radio is essentially peak reading and should be believed.

I assume you did provide power to the mic by installing the resistor on the 
mic jack (you must have, because I don't think it works at all if you don't).

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Dave Gingrich, K9DC - Indianapolis, Indiana  USA
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