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HEIL PRODUCTS REVIEW BY JIM BAUDO, N0UQZ |
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| QUESTION > Hi! can you tell me which is the best mike for the
TS-2000? > I'm shopping for that radio. Thanks. ANSWER: The Heil Goldline! With the dual elements, the full range, and the 'DX Dream Machine'. You put this on your TS-2000, set it on 'H Boost' for SSB, or 'Conventional', on FM, or AM, on the TX Filter, and you'll have THE Station! Just listen to someone who has one! There is NOTHING else, short of expensive equalizers, that will come close to this. I get NOTHING but 'Boy, do you have a GREAT sounding Station there', Reports! Want to meet somewhere, and I'll give you a demonstration! Just name the band, and Freq. Jim -- N0RSE Tucson, AZ |
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| Jim, I had heard about the Heil microphone, but I
wasn't sure you could use it in the TS-2000. About the qso, it'll have to wait until I buy a radio sometime next month. I'll keep the "invitation" in mind. ------------- Oh yes... Not only can you use it, it was literally made for the TS-2000. Figuratively speaking of course. Perfect match! I've got an Icom 746 that I can't get to work for anything with any other manufacturers Mic's, and I'm having a heck of a time with it. But not the Kenwood, and the Heil! For a while there, Kenwood gave away a free Heil Mic and desk stand, if you bought one of the TS-2000's. That should tell you something. It's a wonderful match, and as I said, you will get nothing but GREAT reports on the audio. And with the TS-2000's built in TX Equalizer, you can literally 'Tune it' to any frequency response you want to. However, those two settings that I gave you, with the Heil mic switch, left on 'Wide', work just fine. The 'Conventional', and 'H Boost', are simply two pre-set TX Equalizer settings in the Kenwood TS-2000, if you aren't familiar. And if you want to get over one of those 'Pile Up's', you simply switch the Heil Goldline to 'Narrow', or sometimes referred to as the 'DX Dream Machine'. That will eliminate any and all of the bass response, since for DX, especially in a Pile Up, the Higher Frequencies seem to get heard first. But it's a superior Mic in my opinion, and the best I've ever owned. Along with the best radio I've ever owned, I couldn't be happier. And, if you really want THE setup, you can do as I did, and get the Boom for it, along with the Shock Mount. I don't know about you, but Hand Mic's just don't cut it, and a Desk mic I've never really liked because I either have to bend over to talk in it, or pick it up as a hand mic anyway. The Boom is a perfect solution. Or so it seems to me. All in all you'll spend about $250 on the whole setup, but why not give your Kenwood TS-2000 the best. :-) But, just the Mic itself will work, if it's not in your budget, and I think the mic runs about $130 or so, with another $30 for the cable. It depends on where you buy it of course. You can find deals all over the place, such as with AES. And no, I don't work for either Kenwood, or Heil... Just a more than satisfied customer. It seems that so often nowadays, you can't buy anything that works for more than 5 minutes, if that. At least with the 'Stuff' I buy. But both the radio, and the Mic, have proven to be superior products. I'd buy either one again, in an instant, although I guess I'll never have to. On the other hand, have you seen that new 'Old Time' Studio Mic that Heil is coming out with? I can't wait to get my hands on one of those. You've seen them I bet, the big wide, square looking sort of Mic, with the station call letters over the top of it. In this case, your call letters get engraved on the top of the mic. You can see it over on Bob Heils' web site, if you are interested, and since this will just use one of the Heil Elements, it should sound just like a Goldline. Just click on 'New Products' over on the web site to see it. Oh, I also own a Heil Proset Headset, for those real long DX QSO's. The ones that you can't hear that well. Just put on the Headset, with attached boom mic, and off you go! Or for those times that you want to keep quiet.... Somebody's sleeping!!! Go check them all out at: http://www.heilsound.com/ Jim -- N0RSE Tucson, AZ |
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| I have a Heil GM4 and would like tweak the setup. What
I do not know is what all the settings on the 2K and the mike sound like. A freq? 14.230, maybe that in the slowscan area? What time?? don't know. Some one take a guess ----------- Well, where I get ALL the good reports, is the TX EQ on the Radio set on 'H Boost', and the Heil Goldline on 'Wide'. Then, if you get into a PileUp situation on some DX or something, I just switch the Mic to 'Narrow', and off I go! Kenwood or Heil, or both, recommend either the 'Conventional', or the 'H Boost' Setting. I've found that the 'Conventional', has WAY too many Low Freq's to it. Wasting way too much power on the low Freq's as well. Heck, even on H Boost, it still has a lot low Freq's to it. So.. That's the way I run it, and.. Get nothing but good reports. I started out on 'Conventional', and started to get 'Hey, get rid of those LOW Freq's, will you?'. So, I put it up on 'H Boost', and that seems to have done it. I'm working on my own 'User' setting but it's VERY tricky. I've had it so screwed up that nobody can hear me at all. Thank goodness for presets. :-) Jim -- N0RSE Tucson, AZ |
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