[Elecraft] K2 standard mic input = kenwood circuit - - what mic do you recommend?

[Don Wilhelm]

Duane,
 - that is not quite correct.
The K2 has a microphone configuration header which can be wired for many 
microphone pinouts.
If all the pins are jumpered straight across, it will be the Elecraft 
microphone pinout at the microphone jack.

The Elecraft mic pinout is *not* equal to Kenwood - it differs on pins 5 
and 6.  However, if the Kenwood microphone is of the unamplified dynamic 
type, it will not use pins 5 and 6 and will work fine with the K2 
"straight across" plugging of the mic configuration header.  That is 
what "compatibilty" means - most popular Kenwood mics will work, but not 
*all* Kenwood mics.

The K2 microphone pinout can be wired to use just about any common 
amateur microphone.  The instructions are in the KSB2 manual.

Note: the K3 has a fixed microphone pinout - it is the Elecraft pinout, 
no microhone configuration header in the K3.

73,
Don W3FPR

dw wrote:
> I understand that the K2s default mic input is designed for a Kenwood
> type mic.
>
> If ever some day I do decide to *speak* into my K2 ( not that I will
> have anything coherant to say) what type of mic is recommended?
>
> Thanks
> Duane
> N1BBR
>   
>