[Orion] Orion Mike plug

[Ralph Irish]

Joe

I use the Heil Gold mike with my ORION, and I use the Ten Tec mike
cord.  the Ten Tec cord has the shell grounded at each end.  The
heil cord does not.  When I ordered my ORION, I told Scott Robbins
that I would 'pass' on their cord, since I ordered mine with the
mike.

He strongly suggested that I use their mike cord, because of the
grounding situation.  When the 'goods' arrived, I got out my meter
and tested the continuity of both cord sets and the Ten Tec showed
continuity and the Heil cord did not.

I have had no bad audio reports in the nearly 1 year that I have
had the ORION on line.

So, you can decide whether to modify the ORION and use the Heil
cord set, or order only the mike from Heil, (or Ten Tec, for that
matter) and use the Ten Tec cord set.

73,

Ralph - W8ROI


"Joseph A. & Ruth O. Ryan" wrote:

> Am a  prospective buyer....but, before taking the plunge....
>
> Had an interesting land line with Bob Heil re using his mikes and
> the Orion.  Apparently, Ten-Tec's insistence on using the old 4-prong
> mike connector and also to relying on the SHELL for the ground has
> caused problems in using Heil's mikes.
> He recommends going into the Orion and moving the ground from the
> shell back to pin 4.
> Any comments?
>
> 73's
> Joe, KX4JR
>
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