[Elecraft] CM500 Mic ?

[Mike - W5JR]

That explains where that battery pack came from!! I’d forgotten how I had acquired the adapter. 

tnx
Mike / W5JR
Alpharetta GA


> On Jan 28, 2019, at 2:52 PM, 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.
> 
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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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