Gary,
It's possible that the HC-4 has gotten rough over the years - I had an HC5 element in the Heil ProSet give up after about 30 years <G>. If you want a headset, I'd strongly recommend the Yamaha CM-500 (< $50 on-line at places like B&H Photovideo, Sam Ash, etc.) it is not noise cancelling but it beats the Heil hands down for less than half the price. Otherwise, one is left with a hand mic like the MH2 ($59.99) or Kenwood MC-43S ($59.95) unless one can find a clean used Kenwood MC50 or MC60 at a reasonable price. Even the Heil HM-12 plus stand and adapter cable ($59.95 + $64.95 + $33.95 = $158.85 at www.randl.com) is more expensive than a *new* MC60 ($149.95). 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 6/7/2013 4:25 PM, Gary Smith wrote:
I use a K3 and rarely work SSB and I'm 99+% CW. I normally use a set of Bose QC15 headsets and have a very old Heil HC-4 Mic element in an older HM-5 Ball tip desk mic. I've been consistently getting poor reports with SSB but listening to the K3 monitor I'm not hearing anything unexpected. The HC-4 element was geared to contesting and DXing, not for a pretty voice quality. Perhaps there's a problem with the mic or the settings but I bought the element back around 85 or so and the mic has been dropped over the years so maybe I should try another mic & see if that makes a difference. Problem is I have no other mic to try except a few old Neumann studio mics and the ones for voice take awhile for the tube to warm up. A bit of overkill that's not worth exploring. I just looked on the Elecraft product list & see the MH2 and the Heil Proset. The MH2 is surely wired properly for the K3 but I wonder about the quality of sound its element generates. It looks like the Heil proset would be the ideal if I worked SSB frequently but I don't. The MH2 would surely be fine for the occasional use but I've never cared for having the thicker coiled wire hand for hand mics extending out on the desk from the radio. If I got something like the heil proset I couldn't use my QC15 and I seriously wonder if the Heil comes close to the audio quality in this Bose headset, I don't know, I'd have to compare to know. The QC15 is the finest headset I've ever used for radio, thanks to the electronic noise cancelling feature I can't hear the amp at all and I keep the fan at full speed. As a musician the QC15 give a really pleasant reproduction and are very comfortable. Any suggestions on something else I might look into that is less pricey than this Heil set & maybe better sounding than the MH2? I don't have to have it now and am not in a rush. 73, Gary KA1J ______________________________________________________________ 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
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