Thanks Richard and everyone else here. (For some reason my email wasn
´t "beeped" when these responses came so I am a bit behind and have
some heavy reading to do here, but seems to be a wealth of important
info here that i have to digest, then start the search engines to find
an appropriate mic(s). Most Vikings I have seen have a D-104 with
them but the specifics as to their innards of course is a guess.

Well, the reason why there were different innards, and the reason why
there are so many different mikes in general, is because there are lots
of applications.

A taxi dispatcher in a noisy garage is probably going to want a very
different mike than an airport radio operator in a quiet tower who wants
to talk some distance from the mike.

There are hams out there who seem obsessed with trying to sound like
Gary Owens. There are some who seem obsessed with getting the most natural
voice sound. There are others who seem obsessed with getting the most
voice intelligibility at the costs of natural sound. And others just want
to sound different so they stand out in a pileup. Pick any one you want,
there's a microphone for it.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."