it won't take much to rewire that mic, it's a 4 pin after all and
knowing the pinouts would help greatly.
it was not dissimilar to the old cybernet radios i.e. pears sympson
super panther and radio's of that ilk.
On 1/03/2008 3:08 PM, the old scribe known as John Miller was able to
impart this pearl of wisdom:
> 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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