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Re: [TenTec] Need help with corsair ii

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Need help with corsair ii
From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: k9yc@arrl.net, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:48:57 -0700
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On 3/25/2013 9:39 AM, Wade Staggs wrote:
This was a surprise
to me because these are Solid State Radio's. I guess it has to do with the
time in history that these radio's were made. They probably wanted them to
work with Microphones of the Era/Day. High Impedance Microphones work Very
Well on them. Just a Heads Up OM.....

There's nothing special about solid state circuitry that affects how a microphone sounds or whether it will work. It's as simple as the available gain in the mic circuit to handle a low-Z mic, keeping the input impedance high enough that it doesn't cause too much loading of a high Z mic, and tailoring the audio response in a manner suitable for SSB communications.

I'm a retired audio professional, and own a wide variety of pro mics. All of the dynamic mics work very well with every ham rig that I've plugged them into. The only thing I've had to do with most rigs is tailor their response by adding a low value capacitor in series to tailor their response to be more like a Shure 444, which is pretty close to ideal for ham radio.

73, Jim K9YC
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