[Elecraft] K2 Mic

[Mark J. Schreiner]

Hallo Don,

I use the Heil Proset Plus which has the HC4 & HC5 elements.  I like to 
ragchew and I like to contest and work DX, so I use both elements 
depending on the situation.  When contesting for smaller contests such 
as the upcoming 50th anniversary of the PA QSO Party on the 2nd weekend 
of October (shameless plug, http://www.nittany-arc.net/paqso.html) I use 
the HC5 and then switch over to the HC4 as the band conditions get more 
crowded or I want to try to work that "rare" county for an extra 
multiplier.  I use the Elecraft K2 and have gotten good audio reports 
with it, but not as consistently as when I used to run an old Kenwood 
TS-820S with a Shure AMB-75 microphone (DX stations often would comment 
how good my audio was with that combination, plus the "room presence" 
that occurred at that particular location, a bit of extra "echo" from 
the hard concrete walls, I suspect). 

I did change one resistor, though, to increase the microphone gain when 
using the Heil microphones with the K2.  I think it was R14 on the SSB 
board, and I changed it by a factor of 10 (although I don't recall the 
original or new values right now, but it has been documented here on the 
Elecraft site).

Viele Glueck!

Mark, NK8Q

Don Rasmussen wrote:
> Forward by DC0ZO
>
> Dear all,
>
>  I want to order a Heil Proset. Which mircophone ist
> th e best one for the k2? You can buy the Prosets 
> with HC4, HC5, ICOM or elecraft mic. Where is the
> difference?
>
> Thanks for your answer
>
> Michael, DC0ZO, K2#5619
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