I'll agree, the Shures are sweet. A couple singers I work with on a fairly regular basis bring their own. I also used to have a Nady with a Shure 58 capsule that was really clean... but it had an antenna that screwed onto the butt. During one particularly exciting punk show, it got dropped... antenna first. Shattered the
circuit board - bye-bye mic.
But good mics like these these are $250 and up. I get the feeling that budget may be an overriding consideration for nickpl. If $79 is all he can afford, and he really needs to get a wireless, the Gemini may be the only way he can go. If he can live with it for a couple shows, they may bring in enough money that he'll be able to step up to something better.
John