[Milsurplus] HANDSET H-9000

Sun, 8 Jun 2003 21:38:27 -0000

Remember Thomson-CSF bought all of Racal a couple of years ago and
changed the name of the combined company to Thales (which also includes
Mackay radio). Would explain why the Thompson and Racal handsets look
alike.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of federico
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 21:16
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] HANDSET H-9000

Hi folks
        I have two H-9000 that the seller said manufactured from THOMSON
CSF 
for French Army. The headset has a quite strange 10 pin connector,
inside 
there is a printed circuit with some diodes, some resistors an one 
transistor (all SMD). I believe that it is a preamplified handset, I
checked 
the microphone capsule but my PRC-2000 don't like it so I took the
circuit 
and the microphone capsule out from the handset and put a dynamic
capsule in 
place of the original one (a RACAL ACOUSTICS) and the handset worked
with my 
PRC-2000 without any problem. One my fried have an H-9000, without 
preamplifier circuit andwith Clansman plug, that works well with
PRC-2000. 
So I can say that many (or all) H-9000 HANDSETs were built from RACAL 
ACOUSTICS, probably the French Army loves preamplifier circuits (I saw
an H- 33 so modified for French Army) and so Racal built the handset for
THOMSON 
that supplied French Army (the plug isn't a NATO standard)-

That's my personal opinion . Thanks. Federico

On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 11:35:40 +0100, federico wrote
> Hi Folks,
>          I need the electrical scheme of an HANSET H-9000, the
> handset was sold me as constructed by THOMSON CSF, but it is the 
> same design of a RACAL ACOUSTICS Handset and the micrphone capsule 
> is manufactured by RACAL ACOUSTICS. On the cable there is a tag with :
> 
> 03/96   H 9000   5965-14-463-6115
> 
> The handset has an electronic circuit (a preamplifier probably) 
> inside.