[Elecraft] Microphone for the K3 questions

[Gary Smith]

Why? A good question. At this time I don't work SSB, have little 
interest in a mode I need an interpreter to understand or send. When
as I have now, people I don't know telling me my audio sounds bad, I
need to fix this. Perhaps a $4 mic would be fine. I did try a 
"Genius" headset and found it uncomfortable and within a few months 
the boom came undone. So at this time I need a mic that sounds 
intelligible and works without issues. My last SSB QSO was on 160 4 
months ago and one of the fellows kindly told me one reason a lot of
people weren't talking with me was my audio was almost impossible to
understand. 

I'm not near the Honor Roll but I am getting older, have 9 bands of 
DXCC, have 313 current confirmed on CW and something like only 8 
countries confirmed on SSB. Someday I might like another challenge 
and decide to go for SSB DXCC as there's a lot of that out there 
waiting for a call. Since much of DXing is split I don't have to 
listen much to all the callers annunciating their calls to be 
distinct from the rest. By extension also I care little for SSB 
contesting with yelling constantly being heard throughout the 
contest, gives me a headache. So... looking to a future that someday
may well hold SSB, it would behoove me to consider options of what 
might be my last microphone I buy. I do believe a higher quality 
anything offers less problems and greater overall satisfaction. And I
really don't like a coiled wire in my desk, it always gets in the 
way.

Gary


> On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 16:25 -0400, Gary Smith wrote:
> > I use a K3 and rarely work SSB and I'm 99+% CW. I normally use a
> set 
> > of Bose QC15 headsets and have a very old Heil HC-4 Mic element
in
> an 
> > older HM-5 Ball tip desk mic.
> 
> If you operate 99% CW, like I do, why worry about it? I bought two
> microphones on Ebay for $4 shipped! They work great... I am only
> worried
> about being understood for those rare occasions I use SSB.
> 
> Gil.
> 
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