Just a point of clarification since there has been a bit of discussion about using different mics on the reflector lately. The SDR-1000 does not have any electronics that makes any difference to what mic you use. The mic connector is a pass thru to the sound card.
So, when you talk about connecting a mic to the SDR-1000, you really need to qualify that with what sound card you are connecting to because it makes, IMHO, a big difference. (Others have and will disagree with that statement) For Tom's request below, if he is using a Delta 44 (no mic preamp) I would expect he would get very good results since the D44 works best (IMHO) with a preamp although one is not necessary since PowerSDR has a lot of gain you can add to make up for the lack of a preamp. For the Firebox and FA-66, my concern would be over driving the soundcard since these sound cards have preamps built in. You can turn the gain down on them, but if the MC-60 preamp is fairly "hot" you can still have potential issues of having too much gain going into PowerSDR. Some people like getting the gain needed to drive PowerSDR from external sources and some are fine with the gain added by PowerSDR. No matter where it comes from the key point is to not over drive the audio chain in PowerSDR so that the ALC kicks in. How will this translate to the FLEX-5000? Until there are some to work with (shipping later this month) we will not know for sure, but I suspect that the FLEX-5000 will be similar to using a Delta 44 sound card, where if you want to use an outboard preamp through the balanced line-in TRS connector (line level, not mic level), that will work very well and so will connecting a "standard" ham radio mic through the 8-pin foster connector, but you may need more mic gain added via PowerSDR to drive the rig to full power (0 dB peaks on the MIC meter). -Tim ---- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Homsley Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 11:05 AM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] MC-60 mic I have a Kenwood MC-60 mic that has a built-in pre-amp; any body using one with the SDR1K? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachment s/20070606/29210dc9/attachment.html _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
