[Elecraft] question on Heil hand mics for K2

[Bill NY9H]

  Brendan Minish wrote:
>As a sound engineer I have been consistently under impressed with Heil's 
>products.

go brenden go,

I don't understand why there is such a mystery with microphones.
There is NO mystery. Just because I spent 20 years under contract as the 
area  sales representative for Dr. Sennheiser , and AKG, then 10 years with 
Shure Brothers, doesn't make me an expert, but I picked up some clues.
Brenden has it right. Get your little bottom down to Rat Shack, buy a 
electret element put it in a goose neck lamp, and fiddle with the enclosure 
for the element, and you will have microphone that is PERFECT FOR YOUR VOICE.

Fiddling with the enclosure means to surround the element with a 
case/baffle that will provide the output you want from your own voice. Hams 
fiddle with antennas, while building a mike is easier, can be done in the 
rain , and saves bundles. You need a second receiver, and headphones to 
listen or record the results. Remember when you listen to your own voice, 
live, you are hearing a bunch from bone conduction jaw to ear....adds bass 
and some midrange.
For DX you want a boost at 1.8-2.6 K,, increases articulation...(alcons )

just do it !!!  Buy a old junker mike at a hamfest, chuck the element, 
modify the case, and BINGO you have a mike make for you. Just like the bfo 
settings for the K2.

Am i jealous that I didn't think of doing what Bob is doing? Maybe.
I always believe that I need to add value, to earn a buck from someone.
You can do this yourself.

The expert is ...try John 
Eargle...   http://www.britishaudio.co.uk/micbook.html
It is a little ditty - 400pages with 260 illustrations....
  John " wrote the book on microphones"...Just like Bob Locher " wrote the 
book" on DX. Another must read.   I cannot say I don't know John; I do.

this link should take you to a pix of my mike, from a Shure cartridge.
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=1771119&a=13683578&p=53441791&f=0


For my K2 , i wired it like an icom, so I can use all my icom mikes, 
headsets...etc...