Good Morning Roger!
I have almost the exact same thing except mine is on the front panel.I made
adapters to use the 444 with my K3, Swan 140, Yaesu rigs, and Collins.
73, Mike WA5POK
On Sunday, June 22, 2025 at 06:59:11 PM CDT, Jim Brown
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 6/22/2025 3:38 PM, Roger Rose wrote:
> I operate 99.9% CW and don’t want a mic cluttering up my operating position.
>I use a Shure 444 connected to the rear apron. It has a 3 conductor plug on it
>from back in my QRP days for use with a TenTec Argonaut 515. I built a short
>adapter cable with a 1/4” inline jack with leads to MIC and PTT IN. A friend
>with a 3D printer made me a nice cap for the front panel. Works quite well.
That's a near ideal mic for communications use. It's response is very
carefully shaped for speech intelligibility. Some pretty smart hams wee
working at Shure when they developed it. I've used one in my station
before W6XU, another pro audio guy, turned our contest club on to the
wonderful Yamaha CM500 gaming headsets.
73, Jim K9YC
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