Greetings-
 

NOTE: I am doing my annual summer shut-down for 10 days this month. Please don't send any mics after Aug. 15th if you are a US station and Aug. 8th if you are DX. You may ship your mic after Aug. 29th if you are US and Aug. 19th if you are DX. I will ship kits during this time period. Thanks again for your understanding!  Bob

I'm Bob Nagy - AB5N.  I, like you ,am a owner of the exciting new IC-7000 by Icom. I have to give it highest ratings across the board except for one glaring problem, the HM-151 hand microphone - and it's low output & poor sound quality .

I've solved the problem by engineering an upgrade which gives this mic the superb audio quality and output you need to make the 7000 really shine! Read on and see if what I am proposing might be just what you need.

 NEWS: Icom is shipping the 7000 with a Chinese-made HM-151 now. Click here for info on it if your mic says "Made in China" on the back. And yes, I'm still doing these upgrades as of Summer?Fall 2011.

PS: The HM-133 mic seems to also have low audio when used with some radios. I upgrade these too. I do not suggest using my element on Dstar mode. It has the incorrect response for Dstar. I also upgrade the HM-36 mic for the IC-7200 /7600 (Click here) as well as the 154T Tone mic. The 154T is the same price as the 151 ($47) total.
  Check out my video testing a new IC-7000's mic audio levels
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