[ARC5] CW and Mic plugs

[Mike Everette via ARC5]

The best mil headset ever is the HS-33 with a pair of chamois cushions!  Comfortable all day long, and sounds great especially on CW.  Only problem is that the CD-307 extension cords -- with the jack on one end for the PL-54 aka PJ-054 "bail out plug" and a PL-55/PJ-055 plug on the other -- are getting a little bit hard to find.  And you really, really need this cord because the wires in the headset headband are "tinsel cord" that can NOT be soldered to.

I'll never pass by a reasonably priced HS-33, or a cord, on a hamfest table.

73

Mike
WA4DLF
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On Fri, 5/30/14, Todd, KA1KAQ <ka1kaq at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [ARC5] CW and Mic plugs
 To: jeepp at comcast.net
 Cc: "ARC-5 Mail List" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
 Date: Friday, May 30, 2014, 7:15 PM
 
 On Thu, May 29, 2014 at
 7:31 PM, D. Platt <jeepp at comcast.net>
 wrote:
 
 > Robert,
 >
 > I always wondered who
 used the HS-16 with pin plugs.  I've got a couple
 > originals and also one or two of the ones
 that showed up on Ebay a while
 > back,
 said to have been procured for a "black"
 project.
 >
 
 Okay Jeep, I'm not Robert but the only set
 I can think of that comes close
 to a black
 project that uses the HS-16 headphones is the
 RS-1/GRC-109.
 Maybe the RS-6 too? Then
 again, there are folks on ebay and elsewhere who
 believe R-390As with Rustoleum black panels
 must've been used by 'black
 agencies', so....
 
 Some years back I bought up several boxes of
 surplus from a base closing
 and got a bunch
 of those goofy green rubber headphones and a pile of the
 HS-16s with Viet Nam era dates on the foil.
 Green Berets were using the 109
 there along
 with other groups, of course. Greg/WA7LYO SK who was a
 member
 of these lists was a radioman who
 trained the Montagnards to use the
 GRC-109
 and other sets.
 
 I've
 only got a handful left but I can tell you - they are
 incredibly
 uncomfortable with just the
 bakelite caps! Even after trying to bend the
 headband outward, my ears always hurt after
 wearing a set for more than a
 few minutes.
 But they do work well otherwise.
 
 ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4
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