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Reviews For: Heil BM-10

Category: Headphones & Boom-microphone Headsets

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Review Summary For : Heil BM-10
Reviews: 25MSRP: 89.00
Description:
Headset/boom mike
Product is in production
More Info: http://www.heilsound.com/BM10.htm
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ZC4BS Rating: 2001-06-07
Old but gold !!! Time Owned: more than 12 months.
I bought one of the original BM10's from an outlet in England, I have made approximately 100,000 (yes one hundred thousand) QSO's using this microphone and it has performed flawlessly.

The only changes I have made to it is to remove the Kenwood jack and replace it with a Yaesu after changing a TS940 to an MP Mark 5.

Maybe one day I will move up to the later version - but for the moment everything is super.

Steve B ZC4BS (also G4KIV/ZD8SB/N5ZFR)
N2JF Rating: 2001-06-07
forget it Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
I bought the BM-10i at Dayton will a promise from Bob Heil Himself that it would markedly improve my Icom 746. Despite Heil's instructions that I had adjusted the compression improperly (he says it works backwards), it still doesn't drive the transmitter nearly as well as my sm-8 desk mic. A/B on air tests revealed nice audio reports..but better reports with the desk mic I'd owned for years. It's OK for handsfree use (It doesnot have a PTT switch built in line, you have to add one or use vox) but don't expect it to work miracles the way Heil claims
K3AN Rating: 2001-03-24
It's Baaaack! Time Owned: more than 12 months.
See my earlier review. I just saw in April 2001 QST that Heil is bringing the BM-10 back. This is a great, lightweight, comfortable headset. You can wear it for hours.

As previously pointed out, it doesn't block out ambient noise very much. But that's not always a bad thing.

I hope Heil uses cables with better shielding than in the original BM-10. I had problems using the BM-10 with my TS-850 and had to change out the mic cable to RG-174.
AB5XZ Rating: 2000-04-06
Great mic, light weight, good for hours of contest Time Owned: unknown months.
I have had a BM-10 for about 6 years, and I love it. My shack is in a room by itself, so I don't have trouble with outside noise sources. I used some very small wire-ties to snub the coiled headphone cable and the straight mic cable together. Eventually the foam earpiece covers rotted away, and Heil took my order by phone and delivered quickly. Original foam was blue (red or blue designates the element), but I opted for the red ones, perhaps because they look sportier.
My next headset will be from Heil, for sure!
N2MG Rating: 1999-11-01
Great mike, bad cans. Time Owned: unknown months.
The BM-10 boom-mike/headset was once possibly the contester's top choice in boommike-headsets. The microphone element is one of the best there are for radio work. The BM-10 is very lightweight, but uses small, foam covered earpieces that do little to block room noise. The BM-10 seems to not be offered by Heil any longer. Many hams make an "improvement" by removing the boommike part of the BM-10 and attaching it to a stereo (Sony, etc.) headset.