Also, I am getting excellent audio reports with the MH3, better than using the CM500.
73 Greg On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire <[email protected]> wrote: > The only "dumb" question is the question not asked! > > If you want to hold a PTT switch in your hand, you might consider the MH3 > microphone that has built in PTT *and* frequency up/down buttons that allow > you to tweak the receive frequency without touching the KX3 itself. > > A hand switch to work with the CM500 would require some sort of adapter as > others pointed out. The KX3 uses a four wire TRRS mic connector (tip, ring > 1, ring 2 and sleeve). Connecting the rings together puts the KX3 in > transmit. That's why you must disable the PTT operation in the KX3's MENU > if > you plug in a mono mic connector such as the CM500 or the ProSet have. > Otherwise the two rings short to the sleeve in the mono jack and the KX3 > will transmit. > > 73 > > Ron AC7AC > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 2:39 PM > To: Ron D'Eau Claire; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Yamaha CM500/PPT Headset > > Oihhhh so no need at all for PTT with the CM500 > > I am bad > > Thanks > > And if I want a hand switch etc? > > Still waiting to get my hands on the unit so I can start asking better > questions and not stupid ones > ------Original Message------ > From: Ron D'Eau Claire > To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Yamaha CM500/PPT Headset > Sent: Feb 19, 2012 16:37 > > And that's built into the KX3. If you don't want to use VOX, you tap the > XMIT switch on the KX3. > > Ron AC7AC > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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
