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#PhotoOfTheDay is one for all the great FediHams out there: My Heil microphone with the custom callsign flag at the top. I think it is gorgeous!

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[โ€“] scott@mastodon.clitheroe.ca 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

@croyle@wandering.shop If someone gave me less than a 59 report with that, I'd just come back with "no, sorry, try again"

[โ€“] croyle@wandering.shop 1 points 6 days ago

@scott@mastodon.clitheroe.ca ๐Ÿ˜‚ Or maybe coughPEBKACcough... But seriously, I did get a lot of compliments on my audio with that mic. Much more so than my headphones with the slightly-tweaked "DX/pileup" element.

[โ€“] arnobert@chaos.social 1 points 6 days ago

@croyle@wandering.shop Looks awesome! But I would still recommend a Neumann TLM 170 for hamradio. ๐Ÿ˜Š

[โ€“] kr1st@mastodon.radio 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

@croyle@wandering.shop That's an awesome looking microphone! Is that a microphone you use regularly, or is it more for shack decoration, which I would completely understand?

[โ€“] croyle@wandering.shop 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

@kr1st@mastodon.radio It's been both. Most recently I've not been using it in lieu of using headphones, so my wife doesn't have to hear the radio blasting at times. ๐Ÿ˜‚ I also don't have a lot of room in front of my radio on the desk, I recently shifted some things to make more space, so it may make a return to regular use, which I'd like.

[โ€“] kr1st@mastodon.radio 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

@croyle@wandering.shop Even though my wife would never hear me while I'm on the radio, I always prefer to use a headset. I never had a desk mic, exactly because of the space reason you mentioned. I once had a boom mic for a while that I rarely used, and didn't bother to reinstall when we moved here.

[โ€“] croyle@wandering.shop 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

@kr1st@mastodon.radio I used a boom mic when I was recording voice overs etc. for training videos when I worked at Apple. They do also take up less space on your desktop.... I think the audio is actually a little better from the speaker on my radio than on the Heil Pro-7 headset, but the headset has other options and my wife doesn't complain about me cranking up the volume to try to hear a low voice among the noise on SSB. ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] kr1st@mastodon.radio 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

@croyle@wandering.shop ๐Ÿคฃ I hear ya! I never tried any of their Pro line stuff. Right now I'm using the Audio Technica BPHS1 headset. It has a nice very long non-coiIed cord. I used to use Sony MDR-7506 headphones with a ModMic boom mic attached to it for ham stuff that I really liked. I have way too many headphones, I'm afraid. For every type of listening I have a favorite set of cans. ๐Ÿ˜„ It's rare that I don't use headphones. That's probably why my lil' avatar has headphones on. ๐Ÿ˜„

[โ€“] croyle@wandering.shop 1 points 6 days ago

@kr1st@mastodon.radio Haha, makes sense! Now I'll think of that whenever I see your avatar... I like that my Heil headphone are mostly very long straight cord, but then there's one coiled section that just about a foot long as insurance vs. stretching, but it's not long enough to have the usual coil drawbacks.

[โ€“] deacongeek@ohai.social 1 points 6 days ago

@croyle@wandering.shop Sweet!