Elevated Wire Radio Group

This mod was submitted by W4APO "Doc". This mod allows for low power tune ups with the Yaesu 857D.

Congratulations to KI4LSS who worked hard and has now achieved his EXTRA class license.

We're all very proud of you Rick and can't wait to start enjoying your new privileges with you. There is certainly a world of opportunity out there to meet new and interesting amateurs. It has been and continues to be a joy to know you. Never stop learning. It will keep you young!

Many of you may have visited our old YABB forums. Due to security issues with the YABB product, we've switched to phpbb.

phpbb is a more secure system with a much smoother user friendly interface. The updates are kept current and it has shown to be popular among web designers and administrators. Due to the change our RSS system may be temporarily non functional until there is enough content to populate the feeds.

If you find a broken link or otherwise non-functional area of the site please let us know. We will continue to update our sites and bring a more secure atmosphere to our readers, contributors, and members.

Thank you for your patience and understanding in this matter.

Brian
KG4KGW
Webmaster

Last year sometime W4PWB purchased a pair of condenser microphones from Musician's Friend for a reasonable price. They were 1/2 off at the time and he had some big plans for what to do with the studio microphone pair.

We like to play guitar and since he has some decent recording equipment we decided that we'd use one of the microphones solely for that purpose. The second would perhaps be for vocals or additional backup recording done at the same time while we laid track after track down on the digital recorder.

Shortly after receiving the MXL V63M condenser microphones we discovered that they required 48v of phantom power. This was definitely something that was a let down for both of us. Instead of sending the microphones back to Musician's Friend Phil decided that we would get the required phantom power from a PA amplifier that we'd been using for the electric guitar and other vocals going to yet another PA for final output. In short it worked great and we were on our way to having a stage presence. The recording software was installed into a laptop and although the input was horrible we did make some decent recordings using that method.