[Elecraft] K3 - Rear panel mike socket; stereo or mono?

[David Woolley (E.L)]

Lyle Johnson wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">> The 
> 'mono' label is tricky. I think it means that the mic. audio is mono
>> but not the jack.
> 
> Correct.  The jack is physically a stereo jack, but the audio path is 
> MONO (tip) only.

The de facto standard for PC sound cards is to have electret "bias" fed, 
via a resistor to the ring.  Dynamic microphones normally use mono 
plugs, which short the bias.  Electret ones normally connect ring and 
tip, and phantom feed the power to the element.

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