[Elecraft] My KX3 desk microphone project

[Rick Prather]

Gary,

Now I remember why I only rarely post on this list.

Rick
K6LE
Not an engineer
Not a retired expert in anything
Just a ham.

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 5:20 AM, Gary - NC3Z <nc3z.gary at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> In my opinion much, much better words should of been choose than
> "seriously misguided", they have connotations that one is an idiot.
> Seriously misguided would be trying to run a 12V device off 120V.
>
> I would of loved to see some data/research/reference as to why this wont
> work, there are a couple of articles (yes on the internet, but this list is
> also on the internet) out there that show that paralleling electrets are
> valid, so I figured I would play around with that configuration. I am by no
> means an expert on microphones and I am not saying I am right by any means
> but my experiment showed that it works, well it shows that it doesn't make
> it worse! I did a lot of on-air A/B testing to make sure that my audio was
> not being screwed up. I continued this path because the parallel
> configuration was receiving better reports.
>
> Good enough, I will correct my error.
>
> Gary Mitchelson
> NC3Z Davidsonville, MD FM18
> NC3Z/4 Pamlico County, NC FM15
> www.mitchelson.org