[TenTec] Heil HC-4 and Orion

[Dave Heil]

ac5e at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> ON4UN and I did some on-air speech processing comparing and found there's no appreciable audio distortion even when the Orion's RF SP is set very high. John says he runs his around 5, my audiophile friend across town tells me background noise from my rather noisy shack becomes audible in the 4-5 range but there's no distortion or deterioration of voice quality even at 10.
> 
> And yes, the Heil HC4 and HC5 elements have comparitively low output. I generally have to go to 80 or so for full output.

I neglected to add that after adjusting the mike preamp, I run my
microphone gain at 57 with the HC-4/Proset.

73,

Dave K8MN