[Elecraft] DESK MICROPHONES FOR K3

[Jim Lowman]

When I was in college, I had a few friends who were involved in the 
local AM and FM broadcasting scene.
I didn't need anyone to tell me that I didn't have a good "radio voice," 
so I got involved in the engineering side of the house.
So, getting the optimal mic, and making the optimal equalization 
settings, would be of limited value in my case.

It's sort of like my photography efforts - expensive camera and lenses 
with a poor photographer behind the camera.
If I shoot a good photo, it's purely by accident.

Besides, I've loved CW since day one (note callsign).

73 de Jim - AD6CW


On 7/9/2014 11:19 AM, Ray Sills wrote:
> I have to agree with Phil on this.  I am by no means a crackerjack CW 
> operator.  But, I find with my KX3, that most of the time I operate CW.
> It just gives me more "bang for the buck" when running 5 watts with my 
> KX3.  I have the MH3 mic, and have used it now and then. In the past 
> (QRO days) I did more voice operating.
>
> But, for me, the goal here is to have intelligible audio, and there is 
> little value in transmitting any frequencies lower than 200 Hz.  
> You're better off generating RF that excludes those "low" 
> frequencies.  Still, it is handy to have an on-board equalizer, so 
> that you can make some tweaks to the audio response -for your 
> individual voice-.
>
> I used to work in broadcasting, both radio and television, so I 
> understand that it's desirable for broadcast media to have a "full 
> bandwidth" audio sound.  But, the fact is, that even with 
> broadcasting, we would make individual adjustments -for each person- 
> who was using a mic, so as to "make them sound good".. which was and 
> still is a personal decision made by the audio operator.  The good 
> audio operators, know how to adjust their audio mixing consoles to 
> optimize the sound, and how it "sits" in the mix.  It's more an art, 
> than a science.  And, one of the concerns when adjusting things was 
> "how would this audio sound on a TV or radio with a small speaker".  
> Those types of operators are referred to as having "golden ears", 
> since they made the audio sound good on tiny speakers, as well as high 
> quality audiophile speakers.
>
> So, I also prefer broadcast audio for broadcasting, and communications 
> audio for communicating.
>
> 73 de Ray
> K2ULR
> KX3 #211