I volunteer at our local Hospital Radio station, and we've just been given a
license as a Community Station. We've had an old very cheap VHF radio mic
which has worked sort of Ok for us in the past, but that's now become
unreliable and the audio quality was never great so I'd like to replace it.

I've seen radio mics at £50, even Sennheisers at about £100 and others at
around £400 for a single handheld transmitter. I can't tell from the specs
what the differences are, and I have little experience of speccing radio
mics, as it was something that I very rarely got involved with
professionally.

Can anyone here advise me what the differences are between cheap mics and
expensive mics, and recommend any favourites. Is it sound quality, range,
reliability or what? I don't have a budget in mind, but even as a Community
Station, we have limited funds, so a £100 would be better than a £400 one if
the cheaper one will do the job. Sadly being based in rural Suffolk, there
aren't any dealers round here I could go and talk to, but anyway, what
dealer would actually give me impartial advice?

Thanks

S.

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