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Yeah I am going to do that very soon. I did find out that I can use my 706
mike while this one is gone. Thanks for the tip. Do you know any other
tricks about that radio?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 4:25 PM
Subject: Icom 7000 Microphone Modification
> One of the hang ups about the Icom 7000 is the stock hand microphone that
> comes with the radio. The gain is greatly reduced due to the literal
> construction of the microphone itself. I paid a little over 40 dollars to
> have A E 5 B do his modification and my FM audio, according to my 2 meter
> friends, is back to normal, and what I copy on sideband by listening to my
> SSB phone signal on my R75 using headphones, is so vastly improved, it is
> ridiculous. So, in short, it was like getting a new microphone. Bob is
> fast about turning them around, too. He got mine on a Friday and I got it
> back on the next Tuesday. Go to:
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> http://www.7000mic.com/
>
> read about it, if you need to, and play the video to get an idea of what
> he
> does to the microphone. I have several friends in Denver with the IC 7000
> and I have one friend with two radios. He has shown me the difference
> between the stock microphone and the modified one and it is amazingly
> improved. It was under driven on FM and way over driven on sideband. The
> microphone was made, you guessed it, in China.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>
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