When using the Heil adapter, you will have to use the little battery box supplied with the CM500 because the Heil adapter for Kenwood had a capacitor in the mic lead which blocks the DC from the K3 bias supply. Save yourself a lot of trouble, and plug he CM500 in the back mic/phones jacks. Set the mic to RPL-bias. Use VFO-A to set RP and tap the "1" button to switch from H to L and tap the "2" button to turn on bias. Start with the mic gain set to around 17, Compression to around 17 and the Monitot to 10 to 12. This should get you on the air, and ready for some tweeking. Oh, yeah, set the first three TX EQ steps (50, 100, 200) to -16, all others at +0 and you will sound good. A bit of tweeking here will make you sound great!
...bill nr4c On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:50:09 -0700, Bryon wrote: > Hello everyone. I have a couple questions for you. I have browsed the > archives and I was not seeing anything that was helping. > > This is a new K3 to me, the guy before was primarily a CW operator. > He did > not even own a mic. So I decided to buy the Yamaha CM500 headset and > was > trying to get it all setup this evening. Below is some of the things > I have > tried. In short, I am looking for the settings you have found to > work. > > I am following the Fred Cady guide that I bought online. I am in the > setting up > SSB section. > > I was in test mode. When I was not in test mode I could get the TX > light to > come on via the PTT foot pedal, the XMIT button and never VOX. I > never > heard myself in test mode even when messing around with the Monitor, > Compression, MicGain, VOX Gain and the VOX Interrupt, Mic+Line (off). > I am > using the Front Panel, Low, Heil adapter. I tried the > headphones/mic on the computer, they sound great and the mic picks up > very > well. > > So, with VOX not going off at all. I suspect the mic connection is > not > getting to the radio. My headphones came with 1/8" to 1/4" adapters. > 1 > stereo and 1 mono. > > the mic on the headset is 1/8" and goes directly into the adapter > along > with the 1/4" PTT pedal. I then have the stereo 1/8" to 1/4" for the > audio > and that is plugged into the front. I also wasn't sure what to > connect > it to on the back since there are warning messages near the stereo > connectors on the back. I was afraid > to mess with anything there. > > Is it a bias issue? A connector issue? Software setting? > > Thanks in advance for any assistance. > > Bryon / W7RIV > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
