Well, Colin, keep us posted if you ever try to design something like you 
are suggesting here.

I guess this is the kind of problem where a little creativity can go a long 
way.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: mics for TS480


> yep.
> And now with the rj45 connecters being used, it is even harder to wire up
> your own mike jack cleanly.
> I simply got a friendly ham to look at the pin out of the older 4 or 8 pin
> mike jacks, and tell me in a clock wise, top to bottom manner, what each 
> pin
> was for.
> Now, with rj45 connecters, even if you have the crimping tool, its 
> terribly
> finicky and difficult to make sure that the wires are being crimped in the
> right place...
> I guess a guy could take a short RJ45 to RJ45 cable, usually used to go 
> from
> the router to the lan card on a computer, cut it, and then use a 
> continuity
> meter to figure out which wires went to which pins on the jack....
> Then by use of a couple momentary mini toggles, you could have your up and
> down buttons, and probably even the PF keys if a guy got fancy enough.
> Radio shack has some nice hamend boxes for projects like that, sometimes
> even predrilled.
> I think the PF keys use combinations of resisters to decide the functions,
> and It really wouldn't be hard at all to build one using a hamend box, 
> some
> momentary one way toggle mini switches and some inteligent design.
> I can get the parts probably for less then 20 bucks.
> If the PF keys are indeed controled in such a simple manner, I'll will
> seriously look into building such a thing.
> If not, then it might be more difficult.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 9:54 AM
> Subject: Re: mics for TS480
>
>
>>    John:
>>
>> Well, that's why I'm not going to try anything like that, and may just 
>> buy
>> the recommended mic with the PF keys.  I just thought that maybe a 
>> Kenwood
>> mic from one rig to another might work, but am not about to risk hurting
>> anything.
>>
>> These rigs are just too expensive for experimentation like that.
>>
>> 73 from tom Behler:  Kb8TYJ
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 9:48 AM
>> Subject: Re: mics for TS480
>>
>>
>> >I can say, check before plugging a mic from another radio in to it. I
>> > plugged the mic from my TM-271A in to my TM-G707A and it did all kinds
> of
>> > strange things, it didn't hurt anything, but it sure looked like it
> until
>> > I
>> > got that mic off that radio. I'm very leery now about stuff like that. 
>> > I
>> > don't like hand mics though and have no problem with the desk mics 
>> > other
>> > than the known RF issue with the MC60A and pretty much any newer HF rig
> I
>> > plug it in to but some day I'll get around to doing the mod to fix it.
>> > ----- Original Message ----- 
>> > From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 9:28 AM
>> > Subject: mics for TS480
>> >
>> >
>> >> Hi, all.
>> >>
>> >> I am now seriously thinking about purchasing another mic for my new
>> >> TS480.
>> >>
>> >> The turbo-tuner device that I'll be using to tune my screw-driver-type
>> >> antenna in the motor home with the TS480 requires that the PF key on
> the
>> >> control head itself be used to activate the tuning device, which 
>> >> leaves
>> >> me
>> >> with no other PF keys, should I want them for some reason.
>> >>
>> >> So, I have two questions:
>> >>
>> >> 1.  What would you suggest as a good mic for the TS480 that has PF
> keys?
>> >> And, what's the approximate price?
>> >>
>> >> and
>> >>
>> >> 2.  Just for kicks, I'm wondering if anyone has ever tried the stock
> mic
>> >> with either the Kenwood TMV71A or the TMV7A on the TS480?  As you 
>> >> know,
>> >> those mics have PF keys, but I don't know if they'd interface well 
>> >> with
>> >> the
>> >> TS480 and am hesitant to try it for fear of damaging the TS480 
>> >> somehow.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks, and 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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