Actually, a good question and one that I've never seen a good explanation for. A few years ago, I bought a new aviation headset to use with my station and guess what? It had a 1/4 inch plug for either the mic or headphone (don't recall which) and a .207 Drake-like plug on the other pair. Apparently that's been standardized over the years so any headset can plug into any aircraft radio (at least for private planes). Whether or not that started before Drake began using the smaller plug, I don't know.
73, K8AC ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Bell To: drakelist@zerobeat.net Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 4:08 PM Subject: [Drakelist] Microphone Jack Trivia I don't recall seeing this question asked but why did the Drake Co. choose to use a smaller mic jack on the T-4 line? Surely someone out there knows the answer. Please feel free to direct any comments, including flames, for asking a such trivial question, off the reflector. I've already have used up too much bandwidth. W5BXE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Drakelist mailing list Drakelist@zerobeat.net http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
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