I've never needed the processing on Kenwood radios. Icom's yes, but never on 
a Kenwood. I don't know if I have a big mouth or what. You'd have to rewire 
that yaesu for the Kenwood but it probably could be done. I do like the 
sound of those older Kenwood radios though for sure. The new ones sound 
great, but the old ones sounded very good too.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shaun Oliver" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: TS-120


> hahahaha. gotta get the 120 yet, so might even be able to swing an mc50
> as part of the package. have to do me some careful looking.
> it's a pity them old rigs didn't have any speech processing or
> compression feature. what I remember of the older kenwoods, the speech
> processor was second to none. and with the mc50 driving it, it was just
> that much better. I do have a Yaesu YD-148 which I got for nothing and
> it still works. so if all else fails, I'll use that. it has a nice sound
> and a flexable gooseneck, and the head looks like a golf ball. maybe
> that will drive the radio just nicely.
>
>
> On 1/03/2008 2:40 PM, the old scribe known as John Miller was able to
> impart this pearl of wisdom:
>> 1 thing I learned, cables and mics, you never get rid of because when you
>> need them again, you can't find them anywhere for a reasonable price if 
>> at
>> all. I've been looking for a reasonable Icom SM-8 since I got my current
>> IC-706 3 years ago or so, maybe 4 years ago now, anyway, I can't find 
>> them
>> for anywhere near what I paid for my first one and the prices I see them
>> for, when I do see them, I wouldn't pay for it quite honestly. I should 
>> have
>> kept the first one.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Shaun Oliver" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 10:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: TS-120
>>
>>
>>> I'm gonna try get an mc50 to go with the 120 as I like them old mics.
>>> even the squeaky key noise. I use to love sitting there on cb bands and
>>> keying down ever so slowly just to give people the tom tits with my 100
>>> watts of squeaky mc50 key.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/03/2008 2:05 PM, the old scribe known as John Miller was able to
>>> impart this pearl of wisdom:
>>>> With the MC-50, all those older radios sounded great. 520, 120, 130, I
>>>> think
>>>> 140 was 4 pin, 530, 820, 830,  and any I missed with the 4 pin 
>>>> connector.
>>>> The hand mics don't impress me, the the MC-50 does and the commercial 
>>>> mic
>>>> I
>>>> have I got with my TS-520 isn't too bad either, or the other similar
>>>> mics.
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Shaun Oliver" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 9:57 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: TS-120
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> hahahaha. the radios I blew the bum outa were on air at the time. I 
>>>>> was
>>>>> making some adjustments and I needed an ear a fair way away to inform 
>>>>> me
>>>>> of any changes in the audio and well you get the idea.
>>>>> oh well, while I'm on it, what do people think about the tx audio of 
>>>>> the
>>>>> old 120s, from what I remember of the things, they had some grunt even
>>>>> without any kind of compression or processing. even the 120v had some
>>>>> balls.
>>>>>
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