It depends on where the switch on the bottom of the plus 3 and plus two
mikes is as I recall. I use them all the time on Kenwoods and they all
sound good, the super side kick also works well, but a little more
restricted. With the switch in on way, the ptt shorts the two insulated
wires together, opens them on receive and does nothing with the ground.
The other way, the ground or shield becomes the common or switched
wire, key up, one insulated wire is shorted to ground, and when ptt is
pressed, other insulated wire is grounded, this is for cb rigs that
switch this way as they usually ground the speaker on receive. Hope
this makes sense, just use an ohm meter, and if necessary, ground one of
the insulated wires.
73
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr
open Node 3148
Las Vegas
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, John Miller wrote:
> Pretty much all you need is the wiring for the radio mic jack. You only
> should have 4 wires coming form the mic, and the one rapped up in the shield
> is audio, and if you have a meter that can tell you if you have a short or
> not with a tone or something, that will tell you which of the other 2 is the
> PTT and receive, and you don't need the receive so some short that to the
> audio though I don't know why, I just cut it back out of the way and worry
> about the other 3 wires. I'm not sure on the wiring for that radio, I may
> have it in my list of mic pin outs, I'll look in the morning. I'm in the
> process of talking my dog in to giving me room in my bed right now.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob J." <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 1:28 AM
> Subject: Re: mc60 etc
>
>
>> John,
>>
>> I have a Turner+3 and a TS-480. Any suggestions as to where I might find
>> the wiring specs to make them work together?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob KD8IXD
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 4:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: mc60 etc
>>
>>
>> The only mics wired for kenwoods are Kenwood mics and if you get the right
>> cable for them the heil line of mics will work out great though that HC-4
>> is
>> torture to listen to and for DX only, I know you need the adapters for all
>> of the Kenwood mics, I think Heil sells cables for their mics for the
>> TS-480
>> and the like now though. Beyond that you're on your own to wire them up
>> yourself. I run an audio technica ATR-30 on my TS-2000, with a W2IHY EQ,
>> but
>> I hear with out it it sounds great too. I tried it once and it really was
>> good, I made a cable for that myself. I don't understand it, but I"m told
>> the turner plus 3 sounds good on the TS-480. I heard one and it was pretty
>> good, I was genuinely impressed. That would take some wiring though, mine
>> is
>> wired for 4 pin kenwoods and staying that way because it's been rewired so
>> many times you're stripping wires now back at the coiled part of the cord
>> and that's a royal pain. Kenwoods almost always sound good, I just prefer
>> some sounds over others, especially with some voices. The MC-60 just
>> doesn't
>> have a sound I like on the newer radios.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 8:27 PM
>> Subject: mc60 etc
>>
>>
>>> Hello;
>>> What other desk microphones were not priced out of reach and worked
>>> better
>>> with kenwood?
>>> Do any come wired for the ts480 to avoid the adaptor?
>>> Richard
>
>
|
