[Elecraft] [OT] Broken boom mic attachment on a CM-500
JP Douglas
kb1tcd at gmail.com
Sun Nov 1 21:05:32 EST 2020
From my experience, some of the CM-500s have an electret mic and others a dynamic mic. I don’t know if its an age factor.
I use mine with my YAESU FT-897 and with my Kenwood TS-480, don’t have the adapter at this point to use with the KX3...Pretty good for an in-expensive boom mic.
73 de Jose Douglas KB1TCD
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> On Nov 1, 2020, at 8:40 PM, Walter Underwood <wunder at wunderwood.org> wrote:
>
> I tried a Koss SB-45 headset and hated it. It gets good reviews from hams and has
> an electret mic, but it was not comfortable at all. It sat on top of my ears instead of
> around my ears, plus it grabbed my head more tightly than the Yamaha CM-500.
> Finally, the mic boom was not as easy to position.
>
> I sent it back and ordered a new Yamaha CM-500. I haven’t noticed any major
> differences between the new one and my eight year old one (wires broke on that one).
> The mic boom pivot is stiffer on the new one, but that could easily be a normal
> manufacturing variation.
>
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>> On Nov 1, 2020, at 2:12 PM, Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com> wrote:
>>
>> The boom mic on my CM-500 is now flopping around held only by the signal wire.
>>
>> Any ideas about how to reattach it?
>>
>> What are the best replacement headsets these days. Someone said that the CM-500 has changed for the worse in the last few years.
>>
>> Any other advice?
>>
>> 73 Bill AE6JV
>>
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