[Elecraft] KX3 internal microphone

[Richard]

I saw a different image:  Truck rolls off a mountain road.  I can just reach my KX3 case with one hand.  I get the zipper open after a bit of struggle, and get the radio free.  I push two buttons and get the radio to power up from the internal batteries.  Out comes the wire antenna.  I find the key in the side zippered pocket, but can't get it screwed in with only one hand and I keep pushing the radio the more I try.  I give up and pull the radio back.  One button and I'm in SSB mode.  I push the tx button and call mayday.  After a few trys K6DGW responds.  I give my location and he calls for help.  He stays on the air with me until help arrives.  Cell phone?  No coverage.

Rich
NU6T

Tom H Childers <n5ge at n5ge.com> wrote:

>Oops!
>
>K3 in the second paragraph should b "KX3"
>
>73,
>Tom
>Amateur Radio Operator N5GE
>ARRL Lifetime Member
>QCWA Lifetime Member
>
>On Fri, 03 May 2013 09:54:40 -0500, Tom H Childers <n5ge at n5ge.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I can see it now.
>>
>>You're sitting in the easy chair, reading a book with a nice cup of
>>tea on the table beside the KX3.  You reach over to pick up the K3
>>then raise it to your mouth to speak into the internal microphone.
>>The coax cable knocks the tea cup over which dumps tea into your mini
>>power supply, causing it to lose all it's smoke and the power cord
>>pulls your YF's favorite lamp over and breaks it.
>>
>>One hour later your YF banishes you from the den.
>>
>>;o)
>>
>>73,
>>Tom
>>Amateur Radio Operator N5GE
>>ARRL Lifetime Member
>>QCWA Lifetime Member
>>
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 03 May 2013 06:31:15 -0700, Richard <rehill at ix.netcom.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>This is a good idea.  I have my KX3 in a camera flash bag.  Everything I need fits into that bag-- except the hand mic.  An internal mic would make it ' grab-n-go'. 
>>>
>>>Rich
>>>NU6T
>>>
>>>Dave Lankshear <dave at lanks.plus.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>That's a darned good idea, David.
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>I'm looking at a camera right now and its mic orifice is only about half a
>>>>mm in diameter and looking at the size of the camera, its whizzy in and out
>>>>lens, battery et al, the mic must be very small indeed.
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>Maybe a $20 retro-fit kit? Mic, wiring and a tiny drillbit Hi!
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>73 Dave G3TJP
>>>>
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