The second adjustment is the Bandwidth which is set in the traditional audio nomenclature of octaves. The iCM is the perfect match for the iC 718. Depending on the mic youre using, you may want to adjust either the Treble or Bass to get the kind of sound youre looking for in the Wide bandwidth, which youll use for high-fidelity operating (rag-chews, etc.). I swapped out the mic cable with RG-174 and connected the mic cable's braid to the 8-pin connector's shell instead of the mic ground pin. Any suggestions on eq would help. Because of this low gain mic preamp Our GM, Goldline, HC 4 or HC 5 elements will not work. The site will be something of which everyone involved can be proud to say they were a part. Compression level, it turns out, is no greater than 5-10 dB. Pin connections on iCOM rigs are very straightforward and are shown below. 98. Leave them at factory defaults to get started; theyll set you up for a low-end cutoff of 300 Hz, and a high-end cutoff of 2700Hz. . Do you have a wide range studio or broadcast microphone, or perhaps one of Heil Sounds high-articulation microphones using the HC-4 or HC-5 elements? I like bob as a person but think his "professional ham gear" is outrageous. For stunning hand mic performance theHMM-iCwith the AD-1 i. Parametric Eq frequency/level/bandwidth settings are; 200/9/5, 1500/5/5, 2700/5/5. We have notched some low end out by setting the transmit bandwidth in the beginning then with the EQ, we reduced some low end (menu 091) and this is always a major problem. 32 -3 63 +6 125 -6 250 -6 500 -3 1k 0 2k +3 4k +3 8k 0 16k 0 Yesterday I had a nice QSO with Bob Heil, K9EID. The Elecraft K3 and KX3 are remarkable transceivers. These rigs use a three-band parametric . Great piece here! Rag chewers HATE a contest sound and a rag chewer sound doesn't work in a pileup. You will want to listen to your signal in a second receiver and make small minor adjustments to tailor the audio you desire.The receiver also has a great equalization circuit so adjust the treble and bass to your listening preference. The third control of the filter is either or +. You are the station engineer. Since I cant actually HEAR your transmitted signal, these are just starting points. Properly set there is no reason to NOT run the processor all the time. Looking for "Parametric" Equalizer and "P Parametric" Equalizer settings for my Heil Proset 6 headset with the HC-6 element. All of the late model Yaesu starting with the FT 9000 all the way through the FT 1200 use the same Parametric EQ and mic preamp boards. One for processor off and one for processor on. As mentioned above, be sure the main switch of the MD-100 is set to THRU to bypass any in mic settings and to use only the rig's settings. You may want to listen to your. The all important issue is the third filter where you achieve speech articulation. The other contributor was the so-called Pin 1 problem (Google it). Maybe older firmware had different EQ freqs? I would try 200 - 2800 first. Please submit any Amateur Radio related news or stories that you would like to see, here on eHam.net. Sometimes, you will have too much low end audio from the microphone that actually overloads the mic pre amp and 'sounds' like RF but it may not be. The answer to making the iC 718 come alive is our iCM, handi mic iC or one of the headsets using only our high output iC. The AD-1-I and AD-1-IM include blocking capacitors that prevent the phantom power supplied by the radio from affecting the performance of the dynamic elements. If you want to cut some low end, you notch -20 dB at 100 Hz. Connect your rig to dummy load with a watt meter.Set Eq off, processor on, mode = SSB, mic = 20, processor = 20. I am a new owner of an FT-950 and found that the stock MH-31 mic with no processing and no EQ (only because I have not gotten that far yet) has been getting unsolicited audio reports of "excellent, great, outstanding" etc.