Yeah, eq isn't magic; you can boost highs if they're there,, but you can't
create them. I wonder if the impedance is different on the 990, which might
explain why the hand mic doesn't work well with that radio.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: September 30, 2015 09:24
Subject: Re: MFJ Microphone
> Yep, did that, main problem is the highs just aren't there. I've been
> doing this audio stuff with a good friend who is a broad cast engineer
> since 1970. In my opinion, it just isn't a good sounding microphone.
> Many of the people I get on the air every day with are picky about
> audio, what some may consider good or o.k., we may not. I have run the
> hand microphone on the 590 and it actually isn't bad at all, really
> better than the mfj desk microphone. Oddly enough, the same hand
> microphone sounds terrible on the 990, go figure. Maybe that is why
> Kenwood doesn't give you a microphone with the 990 which when I bought
> that radio I thought was a little odd. The microhpne I always fall back
> on is the turner super sidekick with the turner plus 3 and plus two
> next in line.
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2015, Steve Dresser wrote:
>
>> Butch,
>>
>> Did you try adjusting the transmit eq? You can do a lot with that under
>> computer control.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: September 29, 2015 20:19
>> Subject: Re: MFJ Microphone
>>
>>
>>> I suppose that depends on who you ask. Perhaps the person's voice. i
>>> tried mine on the blind-hams net one Sunday and no one picked it over my
>>> other microphones. I was also told when I ordered it by the guy at h r
>>> o that they had many returns as pepeople didn't like the audio. I
>>> ordered one anyhow, and although the functions were convenient, the
>>> audio wasn't great. Just my two cents worth.
>>> 73
>>> Butch
>>> WA0VJR
>>> Node 3148
>>> Wallace, ks.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 29 Sep 2015, Bob
>>> Tinney wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ron,
>>>>
>>>> The MFJ mike is called the MFJ297 mike and I think it is an excellent
>>>> sounding mike. Because it is a broadband mike there is a base cut
>>>> switch on the bottom. The switch on the left bottom of the mike
>>>> switches between Kenwood and other rigs.
>>>>
>>>> Bob, K8LR, [log in to unmask]
>>>>
>>>> On 9/29/2015 4:02 PM, Dr. Ronald E. Milliman wrote:
>>>>> I am located in western Kentucky. I already have the Kenwood hand Mic
>>>>> with
>>>>> the extra buttons on it. I was just looking for a desk mic with
>>>>> buttons
>>>>> on
>>>>> it that I can program.
>>>>>
>>>>> TNX,
>>>>> Ron, K8HSY
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>>>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>>>> On Behalf Of Butch Bussen
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 3:42 PM
>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>> Subject: Re: MFJ Microphone
>>>>>
>>>>> Where are you located, perhaps we could get on the air sopme time and
>>>>> I
>>>>> can
>>>>> let you hear it.
>>>>> 73
>>>>> Butch
>>>>> WA0VJR
>>>>> Node 3148
>>>>> Wallace, ks.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Dr. Ronald E. Milliman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I was told that MFJ sells a microphone with buttons on it that can be
>>>>>> programmed to work with a TS-590s. However, when I tried to purchase
>>>>>> such
>>>>> a
>>>>>> mic, I was told no such mic exists. Can any of you recommend such a
>>>>>> microphone and from whom it can be purchased?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ron, K8HSY
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dr. Ronald E. Milliman
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Retired Professor of Marketing
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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