> NOT SO, DICK TRACY. All three manufacturers provide 5-10v bias
> voltage on either Pin 2 or Pin 5, respectively - (and have done so for
> many years.)
>
Read *ALL* of what I wrote. I indicated that the power is on pin 2
(Kenwood) or 5 (Yaesu/Ten-Tec) but one had to add a 5K6 Ohm resistor
and 1 uF blocking capacitor in order to use an electret mic. Those
manufacturers do not provide "automatic" operation with the CM500
or other electret mics.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 2020-11-08 8:10 PM, JR wrote:
Joe, W4TV, said:
Kenwood, Yaesu and Ten-Tec transceivers do not provide bias for
an electret mic at all. To use an electret mic with those
transceivers one needs to install a "power adder" ...
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NOT SO, DICK TRACY. All three manufacturers provide 5-10v bias
voltage on either Pin 2 or Pin 5, respectively - (and have done so for
many years.)
Elecraft did operators a HUGE FAVOR by switching bias voltage ON and
OFF with a MENU setting, adding an bonus measure of flexibility (...
which is NOT to be corn-fused with any sort of Flex-able Radio! ...
after all, this is CHAOS and we don't do that here ... ) ;-) Elecraft
earned bonus points for providing BOTH an 8-pin Foster jack AND a pair
of 3.5 mm TRS jacks to accommodate all sorts of microphones and headsets
without a middle-man adapter on its larger models - way ahead of the
field. / K8JHR /
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