Amen, the notion of ground referencing mic leads is
just plain silly.
Duane
N9DG
--- "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj@hotmail.com> wrote:
> It would be great if manufacturers built rigs with
> balanced XLR audio inputs
> and isolation transformers, and a separate PTT jack.
> A lot of "RF in the
> audio" problems would vanish. Balanced audio lines
> are much less
> susceptable to hum and RF pickup. All decent
> baseband audio gear is
> designed to operate with balanced lines;
> professional audio and broadcast
> equipment are designed for them, for the
> aforementioned reasons. But ham
> radio manufacturers seem to have stalled on the idea
> that everyone operates
> voice with a PTT hand mic, and coiled cord right
> into the rig, as if nothing
> has changed in the past 15 years or so.
>
> Rob Atkinson
> K5UJ
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