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    I was going to buy one just for a joke, but the damn things are expensive. It ain't 100 bucks worth of funny.

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    If you want a mic that looks "interesting" An Icom SM-10 looks similar and is designed for ham radio, well for Icom.

    Ofc, this is in the CB forum so, maybe you want it for a CB. :P

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    Using the microphone i bought in 1977 when i got my license, Yaesu MD-1 connected to the EQplus from W2IHY does the trick here, it has a form of delay and echo but but very little which i don't use.
    The bass and treble is used as is the excellent compressor and limiter and downwards expander.
    I build into the EQplus my morse callsign generator i build in 1977, diode matrix was the bee's knees then scanned with 4017 and 555 as clock i.c.
    A LED on the front shows the callsign generator sending out the call, and it is switchable to off if need be.

    With the downwards expander i try to keep background noises out of the signal and quench room noises like echo...
    Having the mike on a boom it is spoken into from 2 inches to get a as direct sound as possible.
    Maybe i should build in the K beep as well ;) Nahhhh.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PA5COR View Post
    I build into the EQplus my morse callsign generator i build in 1977, diode matrix was the bee's knees then scanned with 4017 and 555 as clock i.c.
    A LED on the front shows the callsign generator sending out the call, and it is switchable to off if need be.
    That's exactly the circuit my 22 meter beacon uses for keying. Four 4017's cascaded, with a diode matrix. I really should update it, as it draws way too much power. I never realized just how much until I made the whole thing solar powered.

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    I think I'll buy one of those "Mule Fart/Tarzan-Girl Screamer" mics for the times I feel like checking into the Marconi Net. Yeah, that's it...
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    I think a digital recording of a "Tram Clang" would be cool to use as a Roger Beep.
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    These days it's anything for a buck and echo mics being popular it comes as no surprise. Just add a space and you have the name right, A Static.

    "I think I'll buy one of those "Mule Fart/Tarzan-Girl Screamer" mics for the times I feel like checking into the Marconi Net."
    Oh crap, you bring back memories. Before added to mics those modules could be hooked up to anything and the owner of a local at the time (Linden, NJ) repeater hooked one up to the controller. It had the screwiest IDs and courtesy tones imaginable and became known as the Tarzan and Jane repeater. I forget the circumstances but he was "asked" to remove it but that didn't cause those who left to return, soon after it went dark because nobody used it anymore.

    Speaking of courtesy tones, sometimes repeaters have rather odd ones. I remember one in New York City with a frog, we loved to kerchunk it from time to time just to hear it croak.

    "I think a digital recording of a "Tram Clang" would be cool to use as a Roger Beep."
    Oh no, the old WABC NY chime that accompanied ID after every record was so loud and annoying I'd sit with my hand on the volume control and cuss myself when I wasn't quick enough. It made me think of talkback from the mod iron, you could probably hear it in Pennsylvania.
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    I'm gonna put an echo mic with a roger beep on my IC-7800.

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    Just key you bug once or twice at the end of every transmission.

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