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Larry Godek

My mic!

Well i suppose i might just as well weigh in on this as well since it seems to be the "thing to do"!

When i got my K3 (#763) this summer it came with a Kenwood 600 ohm Dynamic handheld. Must have come from something that uses the UP-Down buttons but anyway, no one has told me my audio sounded bad so i guess it sounds good. What more could i ask.. BC quality? NOT!

Larry
W0OGH

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Grant Youngman

Re: My mic!

i do often wonder why everyone who buys a new radio wants to know what
mic to use, as though radios and mics were somehow born to be together.

A mic is a mic. It can be EQ'd in the radio or outside the radio, the
K3 input can take about anything you can feed it, and still there's
this notion that somehow the mic is "special". I have not heard
anything about "THAT special mic" for the K3. Do we really need to
be this "an*l" about making sure that we haven't picked the wrong
one? What's the wrong one?

I'll weigh in, too. E-V RE-20 feeding a Behringer VX-2000, thence (I
love that word) to a Rane SM 26B Splitter Mixer( I drive several
radios, mostly of 1950's vintage, with the same lousy audio), then to
the Line input on the K3. Would several dozen other mics sound fine?
Of course -- It's me with the squeaky voice, not the mic, and
certainly not the K3. I can EQ that nice RE-20 to sound just like an
HC-4 if the spirit moves .. :-)

Grant/NQ5T

On Nov 5, 2009, at 2:33 PM, [hidden email] wrote:

> Well i suppose i might just as well weigh in on this as well since
> it seems to be the "thing to do"!
>
> When i got my K3 (#763) this summer it came with a Kenwood 600 ohm
> Dynamic handheld. Must have come from something that uses the UP-
> Down buttons but anyway, no one has told me my audio sounded bad so
> i guess it sounds good. What more could i ask.. BC quality? NOT!
>
> Larry
> W0OGH
>
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N8CEP

Re: My mic!

I was fortunate to be able to afford an Elecraft MD-2 desk mic
a few years ago for my K2. It really works nicely with the K3.
I have a habit of selling things and then later regretting it.
Fortunately this time I held onto a good thing!!!

Keith Hamilton W8GX
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K2QI

Re: My mic!

In reply to this post by Grant Youngman

Using the plain Elecraft hand mic here. Very very good audio reports. May
not be a Heil, but I really don't care. As long as people can understand
what I'm saying, then I'm happy.

73 de James K2QI

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Grant Youngman <[hidden email]> wrote:

> i do often wonder why everyone who buys a new radio wants to know what
> mic to use, as though radios and mics were somehow born to be together.
>
> A mic is a mic. It can be EQ'd in the radio or outside the radio, the
> K3 input can take about anything you can feed it, and still there's
> this notion that somehow the mic is "special". I have not heard
> anything about "THAT special mic" for the K3. Do we really need to
> be this "an*l" about making sure that we haven't picked the wrong
> one? What's the wrong one?
>
> I'll weigh in, too. E-V RE-20 feeding a Behringer VX-2000, thence (I
> love that word) to a Rane SM 26B Splitter Mixer( I drive several
> radios, mostly of 1950's vintage, with the same lousy audio), then to
> the Line input on the K3. Would several dozen other mics sound fine?
> Of course -- It's me with the squeaky voice, not the mic, and
> certainly not the K3. I can EQ that nice RE-20 to sound just like an
> HC-4 if the spirit moves .. :-)
>
> Grant/NQ5T
>
> On Nov 5, 2009, at 2:33 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
>
> > Well i suppose i might just as well weigh in on this as well since
> > it seems to be the "thing to do"!
> >
> > When i got my K3 (#763) this summer it came with a Kenwood 600 ohm
> > Dynamic handheld. Must have come from something that uses the UP-
> > Down buttons but anyway, no one has told me my audio sounded bad so
> > i guess it sounds good. What more could i ask.. BC quality? NOT!
> >
> > Larry
> > W0OGH
> >
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rlindzen

Re: My mic!

In reply to this post by N8CEP

The Audio Technica ATR-30 at about $30 works well for me. Apparently
does so for others as well. See the review on eham.net.

Dick
KA1SA

At 05:02 PM 11/5/2009, Keith wrote:

>I was fortunate to be able to afford an Elecraft MD-2 desk mic
>a few years ago for my K2. It really works nicely with the K3.
>I have a habit of selling things and then later regretting it.
>Fortunately this time I held onto a good thing!!!
>
>Keith Hamilton W8GX
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Matt Zilmer

Re: My mic!

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Heil Goldline with HC-4 and -5 elements.

matt W6NIA
K3 #24
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AD4C2009

Re: My mic!

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That ATR-30 is the one I use with my K3 for more than a year now and you can find it for just $22.50 at www.buy.com .If want to see how it look like,go to qrz.com and type my call sign,I do have a good picture and a link to the reviews.

AD4C

"For a refined ham it is compulsory to own a k3"

--- On Thu, 11/5/09, Richard S. Lindzen <[hidden email]> wrote:

From: Richard S. Lindzen <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] My mic!
To: "Elecraft List" <[hidden email]>
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 10:34 PM

The Audio Technica ATR-30 at about $30 works well for me. Apparently
does so for others as well. See the review on eham.net.

Dick
KA1SA

At 05:02 PM 11/5/2009, Keith wrote:

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ka9zap

Re: My mic!

My ATR-30 also came with a 16 ft 3 pin XLR cable for 22.95 delivered I
am totally satisfied when I did a A/B test with my
Gold Line Pro the only difference was the cost.

Check it out you will be glad you did.

Regards
Art
ka9zap

Hector Padron wrote:

> That ATR-30 is the one I use with my K3 for more than a year now and you can find it for just $22.50 at www.buy.com .If want to see how it look like,go to qrz.com and type my call sign,I do have a good picture and a link to the reviews.
>
> AD4C
>
> "For a refined ham it is compulsory to own a k3"
>
> --- On Thu, 11/5/09, Richard S. Lindzen <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>
> From: Richard S. Lindzen <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] My mic!
> To: "Elecraft List" <[hidden email]>
> Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 10:34 PM
>
>
> The Audio Technica ATR-30 at about $30 works well for me. Apparently
> does so for others as well. See the review on eham.net.
>
> Dick
> KA1SA
>
> At 05:02 PM 11/5/2009, Keith wrote:
>
>> I was fortunate to be able to afford an Elecraft MD-2 desk mic
>> a few years ago for my K2. It really works nicely with the K3.
>> I have a habit of selling things and then later regretting it.
>> Fortunately this time I held onto a good thing!!!
>>
>> Keith Hamilton W8GX
>> ______________________________________________________________
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AD4C2009

Re: My mic!

You are right,mine came also with that length of cable with 1/4" plug on one end and the XLR on the other side,because I had installed before at the K3 the PR-40 from Heil,it was just a swap of mic that use same XLR pins,and when I compared them,both sound identical,but the PR-40 cost more than $300 so end of the story is that the "40" was sold and I purchased one more ATR-30 to keep it for spare.

AD4C

"For a refined ham it is compulsory to own a k3"

--- On Fri, 11/6/09, ka9zap <[hidden email]> wrote:

From: ka9zap <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] My mic!
To: "K3 list" <[hidden email]>
Date: Friday, November 6, 2009, 1:27 PM

My ATR-30 also came with a 16 ft 3 pin XLR cable for 22.95 delivered I
am totally satisfied when I did a A/B test with my
Gold Line Pro the only difference was the cost.

Check it out you will be glad you did.

Regards
Art
ka9zap

Hector Padron wrote:

4Z5TO

Re: My mic!

In reply to this post by Larry Godek

telegrapher wrote

Well i suppose i might just as well weigh in on this as well since it seems to be the "thing to do"!

When i got my K3 (#763) this summer it came with a Kenwood 600 ohm Dynamic handheld. Must have come from something that uses the UP-Down buttons but anyway, no one has told me my audio sounded bad so i guess it sounds good. What more could i ask.. BC quality? NOT!

Larry
W0OGH

I just went ahead and included an Elecraft mic with my K3 order. I took it apart and put it in a T-17-B housing for that "vintage" look. Sounds great too.

73 4Z5TO