[TenTec] Need help with corsair ii

[Jim Brown]

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