Since I mostly use my KX3 at home with the PX3 and KXPA100, I have the radio permanently connected to the audio of my computer. I have Voicemeeter Potato installed, so my output is the computer's speakers (currently sent to headphones), and the mike input comes from a Zoom H4n Handy Recorder in USB interface mode. The radio doesn't supply power, the USB on the computer does. If I had to hook it direct, I'd make a custom cable for the mike input, XLR to 3.5mm, or at worst, 1/4" phono to 3.5mm. The H4n has, in addition to built-in mikes, XLR in/out with integral 1/4" sockets. Then I'd put batteries in the H4n to supply its power. The H4n also has a 1/4"x24 stud mount, so it can be connected to a tripod, a cold shoe for a video camera, or a mike stand adapter to fit a standard mike stand or boom. That's how I have it set up right now, with an On-Stage extendable arm, clamped to the upright pipe of the wire rack next to my chair that I use as my "shack stack".
The built-in stereo mikes are electrets, of course, but they're GOOD electrets. The H4n is prosumer gear bordering on professional grade, with VERY good sound. I get a lot of compliments on the SSB output of this setup. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 73, Gwen, NG3P On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 4:27 AM Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: > On 11/7/2020 2:42 PM, Bill Frantz wrote: > > The packaging said (in part), "Dynamic Microphone for Active Musicians" > > The sales/marketing department, usually ignorant of what they're > selling, wrote that drivel you're reading, which is intended simply to > sell more of whatever they're selling. > > The CM500 has had an ELECTRET mic as far back as 2008, when W6XU, > another audio professional, arranged a group purchase for your Bay Area > contesting club. It DOES need Bias, which most modern rigs provide on > one pin of their mic connector. Simply adding a resistor of suitable > value (in the range of 5-10KOhms) between that pin and the mic input > pin, provides bias suitable for most electret mics. > > 73, Jim K9YC > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to ard...@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
