I've got an MC85 and by the time they made that mike, they thought of
putting a ferrite doughnut around the cable just after it passes into the
base of the mike...I still have RFI issues so I run a ground brade from the
base of the mike to the radio's ground lug.
I also put a second ferrite choke inside the mike and another one at the
radio end of the cable. I still have RFI issues on 80 if I turn the gain
all the way up on the mike...but with kenwood radios and a kenwood amplified
mike, you certainly don't need to run that much gain.
73
Colin, V A 6BKX
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Forst
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 9:21 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Kenwood Mc60A desktop mic
If your mic has the curly cord, pass the ground wire through the coils.
It's really just a way to make it neater. The important thing is to
get a good connection at each end. Some people run the ground wire to
the back of the radio and connect to the ground lug. This works fine,
but if you want to disconnect the mic, you also have to undo the ground
wire.
The other way is to connect the wire to the mic connector at the radio
end. Either under one of the 2 little screws, or between the saddle
clamp and the main body of the connector.
One or two snap on ferrite beads on the mic cable probably wouldn't hurt
as well.
73, Steve KW3A
On 12/24/2014 10:07 AM, Mark Torgerson wrote:
> How does one run an extra ground wire down the center of the cord?
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>> On Dec 24, 2014, at 6:11 AM, Butch Bussen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> One other comment, I had severe rf in my audio problems when I got my
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>> that radio seems more suceptable than most. I had to put in a couple
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>> anyone wants it. There were some other fixes with those microphones,=20
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>> ground on the radio as I recall. That might have b een the 50, but
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>> above, I went from a 2000 with no r f i at all to the 590 and had
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>> r f i which the coax isolators fixed.
>> 73
>> Butch
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