This week's ARRL Letter included the announcement of the passing of Bill Simons, W9BB. It included a link to a nice story about how Bill conceived and developed what was almost certainly a ground-breaking product at its time, and is still one of the best sounding mics you can find for use with a ham rig. Only a day or so ago I recommended one for someone who wanted a desk mic to use with his K3.
The thing that makes this mic sound so great was that Ray designed a strong response peak at around 3kHz to counter the strong rolloff in that range by the TX and RX crystal filters. I don't know if Bill's design was the first to use this idea, but it's great engineering, and every successful ham mic since then has used it. http://www.k9ya.org/w9bb/images/MAC_Newsletter_June_2002_FINAL.pdf 73, Jim Brown K9YC ______________________________________________________________ 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
