[Elecraft] Using CM-500 with Elecraft Rigs

[JP Douglas]

I use the CM-500 w/my Yaesu FT-897D as well as with my Kenwood TS-480SAT 
with no "power adder", works fine.

73 de Jose Douglas KB1TCD

On 11/8/2020 10:03 PM, Jim Rhodes wrote:
> Yes, what you said was " 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"". Actually they do
> provide bias to their own line of electret mics, so you could have been a
> little more specific and said "for non-OEM mics".  We can't tell what you
> are thinking when you type.
>
> On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 8:26 PM Joe Subich, W4TV <lists at subich.com> wrote:
>
>>   > 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 /
>>>
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