[Milsurplus] throat mike technique

[Bob Wilder]

I have used throat mikes several time years ago.  The way we were taught was to press
one of the mike elements with your thumb and the other with the middle two fingers on
the same hand and talk in a slightly elevated voice level. Shouting does not do any
thing except increase the distortion of the voice.  The only problem with throat mikes
is that it is a two handed operation, one hand to hold the mike tightly to the throat
and the other to key the transmitter.  One place where it was handy was when either 
wearing a gas mask or oxygen mask as a hand mike is almost impossible to use.

Hope that answers the question.



At 01:04 PM 3/22/2003 -0600, third Eric wrote:

>de N4TGC Eric
>
>I've never tried the throat mike, but a mention of technique makes me
>wonder: my experience with carbon mikes indicates that enunciating clearly
>(using "pear-shaped tones"), along with shouting (almost a contradiction)
>helps intelligibility. Is it possible, given the noisy environment that
>throat mikes were intended for, that alarming the neighbors and scaring the
>cat are requisites?     e
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