I spoke to a technician at Heil today how indicated that if the diagram on the website is followed, with the shield wired as indicated, the cable should work.
I used this diagram on the Heil website to make my cable. http://www.heilsound.com/amateur/bal_unbal.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Cullen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Ericksen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 5:25 AM Subject: RE: [Flexradio] Question About Heil GM-5 Microphone > Hi Mark, > > I would also be interested in the answer to your question, I also have a > Heil Microphone which shows the same characteristics. > > Regards > > Allan > GM0FWV > > > ======================================== > Message Received: Feb 26 2007, 03:43 AM > From: "Mark Ericksen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz > Cc: > Subject: [Flexradio] Question About Heil GM-5 Microphone > > I just purchased a new Heil GM-5 microphone to use with my SDR-1000. > Following the instructions on the Heil website, and using Heil wire, I > built a cable that has a XLR 4 connector on the microphone side and a XLR > 3 connector on the radio side which includes a Heil 1/4" connector for > PTT. I run this cable into a M-Audio Audio Buddy preampflier which in > turn feed my Delta-66 card on input 3. It seems to work well as far as I > can tell. > > I do have a question though: using an ohmeter I noticed that Pin 1 in the > microphone is internally connected to the microphone body. Pin 1 also > connects to one side of the microphone element. I would have thought that > the microphone body would have been isolated from the microphone element > (less chance of hum and noise). > > Can anyone explain to me why Heil chose to internally wire the microphone > this way? > > Thanks > > Mark > AD4MA > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070225/5054531c/attachment.html > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ > > FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ > > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
