Why? A good question. At this time I don't work SSB, have little interest in a mode I need an interpreter to understand or send. When as I have now, people I don't know telling me my audio sounds bad, I need to fix this. Perhaps a $4 mic would be fine. I did try a "Genius" headset and found it uncomfortable and within a few months the boom came undone. So at this time I need a mic that sounds intelligible and works without issues. My last SSB QSO was on 160 4 months ago and one of the fellows kindly told me one reason a lot of people weren't talking with me was my audio was almost impossible to understand.
I'm not near the Honor Roll but I am getting older, have 9 bands of DXCC, have 313 current confirmed on CW and something like only 8 countries confirmed on SSB. Someday I might like another challenge and decide to go for SSB DXCC as there's a lot of that out there waiting for a call. Since much of DXing is split I don't have to listen much to all the callers annunciating their calls to be distinct from the rest. By extension also I care little for SSB contesting with yelling constantly being heard throughout the contest, gives me a headache. So... looking to a future that someday may well hold SSB, it would behoove me to consider options of what might be my last microphone I buy. I do believe a higher quality anything offers less problems and greater overall satisfaction. And I really don't like a coiled wire in my desk, it always gets in the way. Gary > On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 16:25 -0400, 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. > > If you operate 99% CW, like I do, why worry about it? I bought two > microphones on Ebay for $4 shipped! They work great... I am only > worried > about being understood for those rare occasions I use SSB. > > Gil. > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
