[Yaesu] Info on wiring mics for the ft-847 ??

[A10382]

Yes, that's what I thought...  Turner made quite a few 'amplified' mics that
contained a battery and a variable drive.  Older ones ( the nice 'blue
retro-look' ones - the +2) had the control just behind the neck.  The later
ones, which were called "+3" and were more rectangular (without the 'retro
look' of the +2) had the drive control mounted in the mic base just forward
of the neck.  Some designed for CB SSB had an audio drive meter and even a
few slider controls - like an audio mixer  panel.
-----
As a note, I did get my new Shure 450 wired up to my -847.  Although the mic
is quite a few years old, it was virtually unused - even the cork feet under
the base were clean as a whistle.  Thanks to those who responded:

Mic wire                  Plug  Radio function
-----------------------    ------- ---------------------
Green  Mic return  pin 7  Radio Mic Gnd
White   Mic            pin 8   Radio Mic
Red      PTT  sw   Pin 6   Radio PTT
Black    PTT sw    Pin 5   Radio Ground
 and the shields from the green/White wires folded under the clamp to ground
to the mic plug case.

The mic itself has 4 wires... with the Green & White microphone wires
shielded.
I also had better luck with the mic switch (under the base) set to Hi-Z...
It seemed to overdrive the audio just a bit at the default mic gain setting
on the ft-847 - but not enough to deviate on FM - so I lowered the mic gain
a few clicks..

Getting good audio reports on both FM and SSB (able to tickle the ALC) ...

73
Frank
 ._._.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Poindexter" <ko4sx@alltel.net>
To: "David L. Thompson" <thompson@mindspring.com>; "Hernbrode, Richard A
(MED)" <Richard.Hernbrode@med.ge.com>; "'A10382'" <a10382@snet.net>;
"Yaesu - qth reflector" <yaesu@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Yaesu] Info on wiring mics for the ft-847 ??


> David,
>     He may be refering to a Turner Mic called a "Super Sidekick".
> 73 Keith
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David L. Thompson" <thompson@mindspring.com>
> To: "Hernbrode, Richard A (MED)" <Richard.Hernbrode@med.ge.com>;
"'A10382'"
> <a10382@snet.net>; "Yaesu - qth reflector" <yaesu@mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 2:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [Yaesu] Info on wiring mics for the ft-847 ??
>
>
> > Rick,
> >
> > Sounds like a CB amp and probably not legal to use on the ham bands.
For
> > one thing these units are impure in harmonics and hash.  You can tell as
> it
> > only works 26 to 30 mhz or has positions for 40 to 10.
> > 73 Dave K4JRB
> >
> > I TO AM LOOKING FOR THIS INFO AS I WAS GIVEN A BRAND NEW SUPER SIDE-KICK
> > IN THE BOX AND WOULD LIKE TO USE IT ON MY ALNICO DX-70..TRIED TO CALL OR
> > E-MAIL MANUFACTURER AND WAS TOLD THEY HAD NO INFO.......
> > RICK KB9WJH
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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