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:
>
> 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
>