[Elecraft] KX3 - Microphone idea

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Joe is quite right, Steve, but that should not dampen your enthusiasm. 

Have you noticed that you can buy almost *any* inexpensive battery operated
watch and it'll keep excellent time year after year? Computer aided
manufacturing has brought us top quality functionality at rock-bottom
prices. The price differences are in the premium the brand name commands and
the cost of the enclosure.

The same is true for most modern microphones. The little radio shack
electret microphone elements that sell for about $3 provide high-level
output with a pancake-flat response from about 30 Hz to around 15 kHz - far,
far beyond anything even a determined ESSB enthusiast can use. So the audio
response curve is completely defined by the rig. Like modern watches, the
price difference you see is in the premium the brand name commands and the
cost of the enclosure. 

If you have an enclosure you like, you can have a top quality microphone
literally for pennies.

73, 

Ron AC7AC


On 1/12/2012 8:16 PM, Steve KC8QVO wrote:
> I am looking in to the 4 circuit phone plugs and thinking about making my
own
> microphone. Heil used to have the HC-4 and HC-5 elements available by
> themselves. I thought this would make for a neat mic combined with a
compact
> enclosure.
>
> Has anyone had experience with wiring up the Heil elements? Have you used
> the elements in anything other than a "standard" mic case? IE - film can
(if
> it fits), pill bottle, or other odds and ends?
>
> I have a speaker mic for my HT that I could possibly convert as well, not
> sure how well it would work. I'd like to keep it functional for the HT
> though so an adapter would need to be made to get it in to the KX3. I
could
> route the audio in to it for a true speaker mic as well.
>
> This is going to be a lot of fun! Now, when is it going to show up in my
> mailbox??? :)
>