Last week end my XYL was gone and I got to spend some quality time with
my K3.
I went out to Best Buy with my birthday gift certificate looking for a
headset.
Most of their headsets needed to plug into a USB port on a computer so I
had to
overlook them. I found a Dynex stereo headset for about $20.00 that
looked as
though it might do the job. The salesman said I could bring it back if
it didn't work.
The padded ear pieces are comfortable and the sound quality is good although
there is not much attenuation of external noise. I find that I can use
them for hours
and my ears do not hurt.
The microphone seemed to have a lot of noise and hum on it and I thought
maybe
it had a bad shield. It had been well packaged though so I decided to
check into
it before I took it back. The microphone turned out to be connected with one
side to the SLEEVE of the plug and the other side to both the TIP and
the RING.
I made an adapter cord with a stereo jack on one end and a mono plug on the
other end and my microphone problem went away.
The bottom line is make or buy a stereo to mono adapter to use the
microphone
part of a stereo headset on the K3.
73 for now.
Ken W0CZ
K2/100 sn 1031
K3/100 sn 457
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