[Elecraft] Using CM-500 with Elecraft Rigs

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

 > NOT SO,  DICK TRACY.   All three manufacturers provide 5-10v bias
 > voltage on either Pin 2 or Pin 5, respectively - (and have done so for
 > many years.)
 >

Read *ALL* of what I wrote.  I indicated that the power is on pin 2
(Kenwood) or 5 (Yaesu/Ten-Tec) but one had to add a 5K6 Ohm resistor
and 1 uF blocking capacitor in order to use an electret mic.  Those
manufacturers do not provide "automatic" operation with the CM500
or other electret mics.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 2020-11-08 8:10 PM, JR wrote:
>         Joe, W4TV, said:
>         Kenwood, Yaesu and Ten-Tec transceivers do not provide bias for
>         an electret mic at all. To use an electret mic with those
>         transceivers one needs to install a "power adder" ...
> 
>         ________________________________________________
> 
> NOT SO,  DICK TRACY.   All three manufacturers provide 5-10v bias 
> voltage on either Pin 2 or Pin 5, respectively - (and have done so for 
> many years.)
> 
> Elecraft did operators a HUGE FAVOR  by switching bias voltage ON and 
> OFF with a MENU setting, adding an bonus measure of flexibility (... 
> which is NOT to be corn-fused with any sort of Flex-able Radio! ... 
> after all, this is CHAOS and we don't do that here ... ) ;-) Elecraft 
> earned bonus points for providing BOTH an 8-pin Foster jack AND a pair 
> of 3.5 mm TRS jacks to accommodate all sorts of microphones and headsets 
> without a middle-man adapter on its larger models - way ahead of the 
> field.   / K8JHR /
>