Plug the CM500 mic connector into the rear panel mic jack and the phones connector into the rear panel Headphones jack. Then select MIC r.PL bias from the Main menu. Cheers, Fred KE7X
Author of: "The Elecraft K3: Design, Configuration and Operation 2nd ed" "The Elecraft KX3 - Going for the summit" "The Elecraft KPA500 and KAT500 - the K-Line Dream Station" Printed, coil bound copies of these are all available at www.elecraft.com KPA500 and KAT500 Quick Set Up Guide http://www.ke7x.com/home/k-line-introduction-and-set-up-guide KAT500 and KXPA500 Tuner Operation http://www.ke7x.com/home/kat500-and-kxpa100-tuners "The Elecraft KXPA100, PX3 and 2M/4M Transverters - Assembling the KX3-Line Station" available at www.lulu.com. "The Elecraft K3S and P3" and a 3rd Edition of the K3 book with K3S upgrade parts are works in progress. > -----Original Message----- > From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Chris Hallinan > Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2015 12:33 PM > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [Elecraft] K3 and Yamaha CM500 > > I've heard good things about the Yamaha CM500 for the Elecraft K3. It > also is quite attractively priced. However, I noted that it has two > connectors, presumably one each for mic and headphones, mono and stereo > respectively. > > However, my K3 is setup as follows: > > Line in | > Line out | -----> goes to my SignaLink USB > > Speaker Out ---> Goes to a beautiful pair of logitech speakers that > make the AFX quite dramatic, and I love that setup. You can see it on > my QRZ page here: > https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.qrz.com/y/k1ay/k3p3.jpg > > So, what are my options for using the CM500? What are others using? > Should I just build a cable adapter for the front panel mic connector? > Seems like a kludge and therefore might steer me to the Heil setup. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks and 73, > Chris - K1AY > > -- > Life is like Linux - it never stands still. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
