[Elecraft] help wiring a mic?

[Jim Brown]

On 7/6/2018 2:10 AM, Sean Hayden wrote:
> This is simply untrue Jim.  Many hams use xlr connected microphones 
> with phantom power.  A w2ihy iBox and a cheap behringer mixer will 
> quickly disprove your assertion.  I know of many hams that use such 
> setups for broadcast AM transmitters moved to amateur radio frequencies.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Of course you can throw 
money at the problem by buying these products. A fool and his money are 
easily separated. :)

Very good sounding mics built into gaming headsets like the Yamaha CM500 
and a similar Koss model plug straight into the K3 and KX3 and sound great.

I looked up this mic and tried to find specs. There's nothing there -- 
it's all silly putty.  Every place I looked said something different. 
:)  There's no response graph, not even a description of what connector 
is used and how it is wired!  Inside that mic is a cheap (maybe a buck) 
electret capsule. The shiny enclosure is simply designed to facilitate 
the separation process noted above.

I'm retired from a career in pro audio, A Fellow of the Audio 
Engineering Society, and have a closet full of REAL pro mics that I use 
for recording music. The only one I'd consider using (and have used) for 
ham radio is an RE16, a variable-D dynamic with a good blast filter.  I 
used it because, at the time, I didn't have anything better, because the 
variable-D construction eliminates the LF boost of proximity effect, 
and, because it's a dynamic, all I had to do was solder up a cable to a 
connector that mated with the rig.

List members K4TAX and W4TV are also retired broadcast engineers, and 
I'm sure there are others.

73, Jim K9YC