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It depends on your intended use. If you're aiming for loud, punchy AM audio on eleven meters, the Astatic D104M6 or 575M6 are great choices. However, if you're operating on ten meter SSB or FM, the stock microphone should perform just fine.
It's always fun to listen. There maybe a tracon center near you as well. Chicago center is about thirty miles west of me and I can pickup both sides of converstation.
I live between two major airports—Midway and O'Hare—and have several radios that pick up the airband. My primary setup is an older RadioShack scanner connected to a discone antenna mounted on my tower. The antenna sits about fifty feet up, and with it, I can easily hear the tower at O'Hare...
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