[Heathkit] dx 60 mic connector

[Glen Zook]

If all else fails, you can make an equivalent of the
old Amphenol microphone connector out of a PL-259 UHF
coax male connector.

Cut off the center pin until it is about 3/16 of an
inch long.  Solder the center conductor from the
microphone to this pin and then the shield of the wire
to the outer portion of the PL-259.  You can put an
RG58/U or RG59/U adapter on the plug to make things
neater.  The outer shield of the PL-259 will screw
onto the connecter just fine.  You do have to shorten
the center conductor so that the plug will screw on
and make a good connection.

This "trick" has been around for decades.  I think
that I read it back around 1960 in the "Hints & Kinks"
section of QST.

Since the microphone connector is on the back of my
Hammarlund HX-50A (my 160 meter SSB rig), I needed a
connector a few years ago and haven't bothered to
change it!

Glen, K9STH

--- Michael Stoller <k4rdd1@comcast.net> wrote:

> WTB DX 60 single point mike connector.

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Glen, K9STH

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