Indeed. Being just a tad more naive than Jim, a condition that persists to this day, my first college job included sign-on in early AM as the only employee in the studio of a small FM station. I used a fairly large and clunky RCA ribbon mic on a desk stand in front of the board. Everyone has seen them in old movies and the like, sort of prismatic in shape. I made a number of airchecks of the sign-on litany and discovered that if I closed way up on the mic and spoke softly, I could turn a 17-yr old voice into something a couple of octaves below Vaughn Monroe. It would have been a very poor mic for ham radio.
73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011 - www.cqp.org On 8/14/2011 11:48 AM, Jim Brown wrote: > I wouldn't dream > of using them in my ham station. They are delicate (easily broken), > very subject to P-popping and breathe noise, and emphasize the low end > of the voice (very bad for ham radio). ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
