Thanks John.

Will give the Gold Line some thought here.

73 de KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: Heil mic for TS480


I think the mic itself is around $120 or so depending on where you look,
plus cable, plus stand or boom mount, plus ptt of your choice, I was told my
audio tecnica $25 mic sounds just as good but that takes a little wiring up,
unless you run it through a W2IHY or other EQ box. I have run it straight
through the radio with great reports though as well, they say it's probably
very close. The only people who complained are on 2 meters and most of that
was through a repeater and most repeaters around here are setup with suck
narrow and high audio nothing sounds good through them so I'd take an
attempt at an audio report through them as worthless.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: Heil mic for TS480


>    John:
>
> What's a Heil gold-line mic run for these days, anyway?
>
> Just thinking out loud here!
>
> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 2:01 PM
> Subject: Re: Heil mic for TS480
>
>
> I've heard them with the gold line mic, sounds good, but then what doesn't
> with that mic? If they used the mc-60 with a shielded cable between the
> base
> and the mic, that problem wouldn't be there but I have made mine work on
> my
> TS-2000 when I have to. I just have to go easy on the settings and keep
> all
> preamp in the mic and processing off which is the only way to run a
> kenwood
> radio I find anyway.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 1:11 PM
> Subject: Heil mic for TS480
>
>
>> Hi, folks.
>>
>> Sending out that video on Bob Heil got me thinking. ... Has anyone tried
>> a
>> Heil mic with a Kenwood TS480?
>>
>> If so, which one did you use?
>>
>> I am seriously thinking of getting another mic for the TS480 in the home
>> shack, rather than trying to use the MC60, which, as many of you know,
>> has
>> the grounding issue on the lower HF frequencies.
>>
>> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ