Firstly, that's one hell of a first rig for AM! Congratulations. To me, the mic to use depends on what's been done to the KW1. Is it stock? A later KW1? It seems to me that then you would want a Hi Z "communications mic." Besides what has been mentioned, there is the Shure 444 and 520. The 520 is the "Green Bullet." If it's been modified for audio and can take line level low Z then you can run some processing, and a "broadcast" type microphone like one of the ones that has been mentioned. I think the RE20 and 27 are overpriced for ham radio; you can do real well with a Shure SM58 dynamic to a preamp and employ some equalizing and tight peak limiting ahead of the KW1. I'm afraid a broadcast or performance type mic right into the rig would sound muddy or muffled but you could always try it, what the heck, you never know for sure until you experiment.
I have endured communications audio on SSB for a few years so to me, AM makes almost anything sound good, even the seemingly narrow 300-3000 Hz sounds good to me now. 73 Rob K5UJ On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Gerald Stockinger <cliogunsm...@centurytel.net> wrote: > > Good morning to all. Since I will soon be new to AM having been on SSB > since 1957 I need the benefit of others experience. Last week a good > amount of time was spent on audio quality so I thought I would ask here. > The rig is a Collins KW-1. I need a good quality (broadcast if you will) > microphone to use with it, I have a deep voice and I sound terrible on a > 300 to 3000 mic. I need more lows than that. I welcome any suggestions > on what microphone might fill my needs. 73 > Jerry K9GOZ > ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
