[Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 67, Issue 12

[Cqtestk4xs at aol.com]

My two cents on the mic.
 
I used another rx, not the monitor to set it up.  The audio  setup did not 
come easy.  It took quite a few hours of xmitting one watt on  ten meters at 
night and listening on the other rx as I adjusted, and then  putting the 
settings to work the next day in QSOs...and then back to ten meters,  several 
cycles.
 
Mic is a Heil Quiet phone with the Heil 4 cartridge,  I do it  in a unique 
situation.  My mic is first fed into an old Nel-tech DVK with a  processor 
built in.  I feed that into the K-3.  Mic gain set to 6,  compression to 25.  
Tx audio shaped to in order from 1-8.....1+16, 2+16,  3+12, 4-2, 5-4, 6+2, 
7-13, 8, 0. 
 
Several guys I have spoken to using the K3 have never bothered  to even 
mess with the tx equalization.  IMHO, it is one of the most  important audio 
adjustments.  My voice is somewhat bassey and for  contesting and DXing that 
is a negative.  However, the "dual compression"  and the Heil 4 cartridge 
bring out a bunch of highs, so that balances it  off.
 
By the way, tons of unsolicited, very positve comments (perfect  audio, 
etc.) Once in a greatwhile I get "crappy" audio, but the ratio of  unsolicted 
good to bad is about 20:1.
 
73 Bill KH7XS