[Elecraft] My mic!

[K2QI]

Using the plain Elecraft hand mic here.  Very very good audio reports.  May
not be a Heil, but I really don't care.  As long as people can understand
what I'm saying, then I'm happy.

73 de James K2QI

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Grant Youngman <nq5t at tx.rr.com> wrote:

> i do often wonder why everyone who buys a new radio wants to know what
> mic to use, as though radios and mics were somehow born to be together.
>
> A mic is a mic.  It can be EQ'd in the radio or outside the radio, the
> K3 input can take about anything you can feed it, and still there's
> this notion that somehow the mic is "special".  I have not heard
> anything about "THAT special mic" for the K3.    Do we really need to
> be this "an*l" about making sure that we haven't picked the wrong
> one?  What's the wrong one?
>
> I'll weigh in, too.  E-V RE-20 feeding a Behringer VX-2000, thence (I
> love that word) to a Rane SM 26B Splitter Mixer( I drive several
> radios, mostly of 1950's vintage, with the same lousy audio), then to
> the Line input on the K3.  Would several dozen other mics sound fine?
> Of course -- It's me with the squeaky voice, not the mic, and
> certainly not the K3.  I can EQ that nice RE-20 to sound just like an
> HC-4 if the spirit moves .. :-)
>
> Grant/NQ5T
>
> On Nov 5, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Telegrapher at att.net wrote:
>
> > Well i suppose i might just as well weigh in on this as well since
> > it seems to be the "thing to do"!
> >
> > When i got my K3  (#763) this summer it came with a Kenwood 600 ohm
> > Dynamic handheld.  Must have come from something that uses the UP-
> > Down buttons but anyway, no one has told me my audio sounded bad so
> > i guess it sounds good.  What more could i ask.. BC quality?  NOT!
> >
> > Larry
> > W0OGH
> >
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