I use good Sennheiser headphones - I like to listen to the audio from the
radio without additional signal modifications.
You don't need the very best - those around the $100 mark are not at all
bad, for example even these:
http://www.brack.ch/aspx/Shop/lager.aspx?ArtID=63546
Simon Brown,
I alternate between a pair of light, behind the head, Walkman style
headphones and a venerable AKG headset.
Both give me clear audio. The major limiting factors at present is the
amount of noise on both 80 m and 40 m. Headphones won't clear this up,
but DSP techniques help.
The major
KBG Luxford a écrit :
block [...] my wife.
This is the real killer-feature !
I'm using a closed-type (Heil Proset +) headset. When my wife comes in
the shack to ask something, and i answer her shouting QUOI ? (WHAT
?) she's so afraid that she usually gets out rapidly !!
--
Laurent
At our local club and among many of the members of the BCC aviation headsets are
fairly popular. The headsets we have in use locally are the PA11-60 and PA11-61
http://www.pilot-usa.com/pa1161a.htm.
Advantages:
1) Bandwidth limited to voice frequencies.
2) Microphone can be placed very close to
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I use the Elecraft version of the Heil Proset+ with my K2/100.
I would stay away from the Warren Gregoire headset. When I was in the
market about 10 years ago for my first headset I gave them a call. They
were advertising the same headset as today
Any good quality headset made for computer use will work just fine. You
literally can plug-and-play into the jacks on the back of the rig. I
hooked up a foot switch and alternate between that and vox with ease
using a very inexpensive set of headphones I bought from AllElectronics.
Doug --
I have purchased in total 4 kits from Warren Gregoire for the last 5 years.
Two for myself (I have just worn out one in contests and expeditions) and
two for my friends. They are easy to assemble(although they sell ready made
headsets as well) and IMHO pretty good quality for the price. I never
for a little more than 100$ I was able to get a sennheiser boom
headset, ( sllightly used) ... HMD 280 ( the d is for dynamic
mic)... work great on the k3
( and my icom)...
At 02:15 AM 11/26/2007, Simon Brown (HB9DRV) wrote:
I use good Sennheiser headphones - I like to listen to the
I'm looking into buying a headset for the eventual arrival of my K3. There
is a regular ad in QST for an outfit in California that looks interesting.
It is Warren Gregoire Associates and I wonder if anyone in the group has
any knowledge of how well this unit performs. If the Heil headset is
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