[Elecraft] [K3] Mic Experimentation with Kenwood MC-60

[Don Wilhelm]

  Phil,

Actually, you can check out the wiring as well as I can.  Schematics and 
pinout information has been complied on many microphones by G4WPW and 
can be found at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rg4wpw/date.html - this is 
a wonderful resource for anyone contemplating use of a microphone that 
is branded differently from their transceiver.

No sense in me reading the schematic and relating it to you when you can 
do it yourself.

 From what I see, if you can operate with the preamp off, you do not 
need to make any changes.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 3/6/2011 11:24 AM, Phil Hystad wrote:
> Don,
>
> Actually, I do have an MC-60A here I guess.  It definitely does have the preamp, the battery pack underneath and so on but the mic label on the base says "MC-60".  I read somewhere on the Internet that the "A" model is not identified by the label on the base.
>
> There is a part of your message that I would like to clarify.  I have examined the relevant material in the K3 user guide and still I am not sure.  The K3 provides voltage on pin 6 but the MC-60 expects voltage on pin 5.  What I don't understand is IF I were to rewire this so that the voltage was placed on pin 5 (I assume I would do this within the base itself and not rewire the actual connector) then do I create a problem for the K3??  I am assuming that I would have to make sure that pin 5 was NOT connected to anything but that I took the pin 6 voltage offered by the K3 and route it to whatever pin 5 was hooked up to.
>
> 73, phil, K7PEH
>