You know, Ross, when I first received my 3000 back in the days when the
earth was young, I took one look at that mike connector, remembered when a
mike connector had a single eyelit in the center and a nice spring strain
relief, shook my head, scratched several times and went to Radio Shack. I
bought some of those RJ connectors and their best quality crimper, thirty
feet of eight conductor cable, a metal box and an eight terminal strip and
then went home to find the coil of braid that I normally use for grounding
stuff. I squeezed the braid open so I could push a suitable length of the
cable through, saving the rest for future similar applications, and then
attached one of those goofy RJ connectors to one end. I now had a well
shielded cable that I could ground as wisdom demands. Then I drilled a few
holes in that metal box so that all of my existing mike connectors could be
attached as desired. I do go from D-104 to Pilots head set and even one of
those shiny gold things from Heil. I took a piece of paper and very
carefully identified each pin and then fastened the now nicely shielded
cable from the 3000 to the respectively numbered terminals on the strip
which I had mounted in the metal box. Then I found all the manuals for my
mikes and wired the appropriate connectors to the desired screws on that
terminal strip. Yes, I did leave out the fact that the D-104 and pilots
head set do require some trivial additional work. And just in case you've
forgotten where some of that information might be found I suggest you look
on page 65 of the April 2010 QST.
Suddenly I realized that perhaps I had made a "universal adapter" and never
again would I have to beg some piece of metal to be nice to me.
This will not solve the most difficult microphone problem that I have
encountered so far: how does one keep the cat from chewing off the foam
thing on the mike?
73
Lee K9WRU
----- Original Message -----
rom: "Ross Stenberg" <ross.stenb...@charter.net>
To: <flexradio@flex-radio.biz>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Yeasu microphone
I believe so. I'm only sure of the Yaesu mic on the more recent models.
Look at page 4 of the 5000 manual for detailed pin-out information. Just
looked...it is compatible.
On 12/1/2011 12:12 PM, Robert KB6QXM wrote:
I have an yaesu mh-1 b8 microphone from my 757gx2. Is this microphone
also plug and play for the 5000a?
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