[SOC] Microphones?!?!

[EAA Chapter 280 @ Spinks]

don't know what you guys are looking at... I checked and double checked
both my rigs.. the HW16 and the 2-NT Drake.... no mic thingy at all...
Hmmmmmm

Violet  trustee of W5SOC


On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Curt Steger <csteger515 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now I am confused. Randall mentioned mic jacks. I thought this was some
> sort of joke he was playing on us. Now you are telling me they are real?
> And here I thought the extra plug on the radio was some sort of additional
> ALC connection or something. No wonder the relay on my FL-2100 did not
> activate when I plugged it into the jack on the front of my FL-101.
>
> Ya learn (going to catch hell for using that word) something new every day.
>
> 73 de NA7CS
> Curt
>
> On 8/24/2014 8:07 PM, Ray Day wrote:
>
>> Wow! Curt, thanks for opening my eyes on this! I always thought the "mic"
>> jack on the newer rigs was for "Maybe In Case" the key jack broke. This
>> explains a lot - what all that gibberish is about in the second half of
>> the
>> rig manuals, for example, and maybe even why there's those funny signals
>> in
>> the mostly-no-CW-up-there whole upper half of the bands, and why the IF
>> passband knobs included such wide choices (who needs 2.2kc-wide IF's,
>> anyway?). Holy cow! What next?
>>
>>
>> Thanks again for enlightening me? I've got an old carbon button around
>> here
>> somewhere..
>>
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Ray N6HE (I forget my SOC #)
>>
>>
>>
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