[Elecraft] [K3] Mic Experimentation with Kenwood MC-60

[Monty Shultes]

Coming late to this thread - 

Phil, don't use the preamp. You do not need it.  Open up the mic base and wire around it.  It can be a source of RFI.  My MIC level is 29, the impedance switch on the mic is at 500 ohms, and I get good audio reports on my MC-60A.  The up/down buttons are useful on occasion.

Monty K2DLJ

On Mar 6, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Phil Hystad wrote:

> Yes, I may plan to do that if I decide to keep this mic.  The price is OK and I am leaning towards buying it because if I did not want to keep the mic I could probably recover my cost by selling it.
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> phil
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> On Mar 6, 2011, at 8:51 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
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>> Phil,
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>> The K3 provides voltage on pin 6 but the MC-60 expects
>>> voltage on pin 5.  What I don't understand is IF I were to rewire
>>> this so that the voltage was placed on pin 5 (I assume I would do
>>> this within the base itself and not rewire the actual connector) then
>>> do I create a problem for the K3??  I am assuming that I would have
>>> to make sure that pin 5 was NOT connected to anything but that I took
>>> the pin 6 voltage offered by the K3 and route it to whatever pin 5
>>> was hooked up to.