I remember the D104's from my early years in Ham radio.
I never had a mic for my DX35 in the late 1950's and acquired a carbon
mic with the old AN-ARC-1 VHF AM radio I bought for 2m AM as a Tech.
I upgraded to a Johnson 6N2 after college so bought a new Electro-voice
mic that had cardiode
Moreover, Bob Heil retired and sold the company earlier this month.
https://heilsound.com/press/heil-sound-announces-new-owners/
73,
Kent K9ZTV
> On Feb 23, 2022, at 9:57 AM, Bill Coleman wrote:
>
> Heil Sound stopped selling HC4 and HC5 mike elements many years ago. (10
> years ago?)
Heil Sound stopped selling HC4 and HC5 mike elements many years ago. (10 years
ago?)
I think part of the rationale was that modern rigs have built-in equalizers
that eliminated the need for a crystal microphone with a tailored response.
> On Feb 22, 2022, at 9:03 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>
>
In the original post, he stated that he specifically did not want an
electret element, has found the dynamic replacements and is not interested,
but wants a crystal element replacement. Most of the links offered do not
offer what he is looking for. So I stand by my original statement with the
Heil HC4/HC5 elements were discontinued many years ago. I believe that DX
Engineering sells a similar element for D104's.
John KK9A
Don Wilhelm w3fpr wrote:
I have used electric elements in the D104 and they worked quite well.
If you want a dynamic element, I suggest the HC4 or HC5 from Heil
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 20:19 Don Wilhelm wrote:
> I have used electric elements in the D104 and they worked quite well.
> If you want a dynamic element, I suggest the HC4 or HC5 from Heil
> Sound. I don't know if Heil is still selling those mic elements
> separately, but they do work well in
I have used electric elements in the D104 and they worked quite well.
If you want a dynamic element, I suggest the HC4 or HC5 from Heil
Sound. I don't know if Heil is still selling those mic elements
separately, but they do work well in the D104 (and other mics). Just add
enough foam padding
Can you not purchase a Heil mic element and wire it to suit?
Bill
K9YEQ
Have a wonderful day!
Bill
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On 2/22/2022 11:22 AM, Wilson Lamb via Elecraft wrote:
OK, discriminating operators, does anyone know of a good replacement D-104
element.
The Shure 444 and other of their mics with numbers in that series have a
similar response, specifically tailored for SSB. Shure has always had
some hams
I thought Heil used to have an element that you could substitute. You
had to remove the D104 element.
W0MU
On 2/22/2022 5:27 PM, Tim Tucker wrote:
That element only works on the powered / amplified model.
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 2:35 PM Dean Adinolfi wrote:
W2ENY element works great.
Are you referring to the original non amplified D104? If so, there is no
replacement available. There is a lengthy thread about a proposed
(dormant) project to recreate the element here:
https://www.worldwidedx.com/threads/d-104.241890/
Tim
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 11:22 AM Wilson Lamb via
That element only works on the powered / amplified model.
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 2:35 PM Dean Adinolfi wrote:
> W2ENY element works great.
>
> https://www.w2eny.com/
>
> Dean, KD3ANX
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W2ENY element works great.
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At 04:03 PM 2/23/2007, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
Unlike almost all modern mics, the original D-104 has a shaped frequency
response curve for optimum speech quality. It has a broad peak in the 3 kHz
not unlike all modern mics,
the Shure SM58... is probably the world's most popular mic
heh heh
I loved your line ... towers almost a foot over my K2
man, the mike is bigger than the radio!
I can visualize a ham wrestling with a giant mike connected to a
teeny radio ...
That brought smiles to my face, thank you.
Ron, wb1hga
Elmer the inquisitive
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have
Unlike almost all modern mics, the original D-104 has a shaped frequency
response curve for optimum speech quality. It has a broad peak in the 3 kHz
range to pick up the sibilance essential for intelligibility, with good
roll-off characteristics at the higher and lower frequencies.
Since filter
Don,
There was a report somewhere within the past few months that one ham
successfully used his unamplified D-104 with a low impedance rig (it may
have been a K2). He simply added a series resistor to keep the mic looking
into a high impedance and it worked fine. I have not tried it here, but I
On Feb 23, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
It's a great mic and a real icon. If yours has the original
element, it may
well be a Rochelle salts crystal element. Of so you're fortunate it's
survived. They are easily destroyed by physical shock (knocking the
mic over
or dropping
Ouch!! That's a great story though. I got similar personal support from the
National company back in the 60's. Elecraft's excellent customer support
isn't something new; it's just something that's been missing from too many
companies for too many years.
You might try the suggestion Don Wilhelm
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of W3FPR - Don Wilhelm
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 5:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] D 104 mic with K2
The D 104 mic (unamplified version) needs to look into a very high
impedance
(50k ohms
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John [K7SVV]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On their Web page, Astatic does not give the value of the Base to
Collector
resistor value in the first stage of the the preamp but they do for the
same
resistor in the second stage. Have you any idea what it might be?
It
The D 104 mic (unamplified version) needs to look into a very high impedance
(50k ohms or greater). That mic was developed in the days of vacuum tubes
with mic amplifier input inpedances in the 50k to 1 megohm range.
Modern transceivers present an impedance of something close ot 600 ohms at
the
PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] D 104 mic with K2
The D 104 mic (unamplified version) needs to look into a very high impedance
(50k ohms or greater). That mic was developed in the days of vacuum tubes
with mic amplifier input inpedances in the 50k to 1
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