Joe is quite right, Steve, but that should not dampen your enthusiasm. Have you noticed that you can buy almost *any* inexpensive battery operated watch and it'll keep excellent time year after year? Computer aided manufacturing has brought us top quality functionality at rock-bottom prices. The price differences are in the premium the brand name commands and the cost of the enclosure.
The same is true for most modern microphones. The little radio shack electret microphone elements that sell for about $3 provide high-level output with a pancake-flat response from about 30 Hz to around 15 kHz - far, far beyond anything even a determined ESSB enthusiast can use. So the audio response curve is completely defined by the rig. Like modern watches, the price difference you see is in the premium the brand name commands and the cost of the enclosure. If you have an enclosure you like, you can have a top quality microphone literally for pennies. 73, Ron AC7AC On 1/12/2012 8:16 PM, Steve KC8QVO wrote: > I am looking in to the 4 circuit phone plugs and thinking about making my own > microphone. Heil used to have the HC-4 and HC-5 elements available by > themselves. I thought this would make for a neat mic combined with a compact > enclosure. > > Has anyone had experience with wiring up the Heil elements? Have you used > the elements in anything other than a "standard" mic case? IE - film can (if > it fits), pill bottle, or other odds and ends? > > I have a speaker mic for my HT that I could possibly convert as well, not > sure how well it would work. I'd like to keep it functional for the HT > though so an adapter would need to be made to get it in to the KX3. I could > route the audio in to it for a true speaker mic as well. > > This is going to be a lot of fun! Now, when is it going to show up in my > mailbox??? :) > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
