[Elecraft] CM500 Mic ?

[Walter Underwood]

If you are using a KX2 or KX3, you’ll get logic bias as well as mic bias on the CM500 mic. If you separate out the mic bias, you’ll get more and cleaner output. A stereo to L/R splitter will do that job, plus it breaks out the PTT line. I wrote that up on my blog.

https://observer.wunderwood.org/2015/08/16/yamaha-cm500-headset-with-ptt-on-elecraft-kx3/ <https://observer.wunderwood.org/2015/08/16/yamaha-cm500-headset-with-ptt-on-elecraft-kx3/>

wunder
K6WRU
Walter Underwood
CM87wj
http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)

> On Jan 28, 2019, at 11:52 AM, Walter Underwood <wunder at wunderwood.org> wrote:
> 
> The published docs on the CM500 are a mess, but it is an electret. It even comes with a battery pack so you can use it with non-powered mic jacks.
> 
> wunder
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>> On Jan 28, 2019, at 11:44 AM, Paul Ecker <eckerpw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Don - thank you. That was exactly the reason I wanted to double check. I
>> saw an ad on the internet saying dynamic.
>> 
>> Tnx agn & 73
>> Paul
>> w2eck
>> 
>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 2:33 PM Don Wilhelm <donwilh at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Paul,
>>> 
>>> While I have seen ads saying it has a dynamic element, that is not the
>>> case - it is an electret type.
>>> 
>>> I believe it was designed to be a microphone you could plug into a
>>> computer, and all of those are electret types.
>>> 
>>> 73,
>>> Don W3FPR
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 1/28/2019 2:26 PM, Paul Ecker wrote:
>>>> Does anyone know if the CM500 has a Electret or Dynamic mic?
>>>> 
>>> 
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