I hear you, John, and to think it's probably all in the name of money.

My ideal hope would be that sometime all of this stuff gets standardized, 
and will be interchangeable, but it'll never happen.

So, I guess it's back to reality now.  (grin)

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: mics for TS480


> It used to be you could play around like that, I really don't like this 
> new
> trend of playing those games. I hear the IC-7000 you can't just plug any 
> old
> Icom mic in to either, and I know the IC-208 hand mic literally does 
> nothing
> if plugged in to the 706 because a friend of mine tried it, no audio,
> nothing. I don't like that trend, I like when mics were simple, 8 pin
> Kenwood was 8 pin Kenwood, mic from 1 radio will work on another. 
> Someone's
> really going to fry something 1 of these days and it will be completely by
> accident doing something like that.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 11:54 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
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>