[TenTec] Omni 6 mics

[Rob Atkinson, K5UJ]

Heil mics (Goldline) work great with the Omni 6 with one caveat:  you have to have a good ground on the rig and maybe put two or three ferrite chokes on the mic cord where it goes into the front panel.  In other words, you may have to do a few things to keep rf out of your audio such as putting a line isolator on the feedline coming out of the rig.  I have no idea if you have to do this stuff with all mics or just the goldline; I had to do this with my Omni 6 and goldline, and I've worked guys with the same setup who had rf in their tx audio, didn't know it, and were running the mic into the rig which was poorly grounded.  My experience--hooking it up to a cold water pipe with a thin 10 foot length of braid wasn't enough.  it has to be on a thick copper cable or strap going out a few feet to an 8 or 10 foot long ground rod.  If the rig is properly grounded and isolated, the heil mics sound excellent.  Also, the IHY eq. really helps a lot too.  It's something to consider if you don't mind the expense and operate a lot on phone.  The nice thing about the goldline is it has the two elements in one body so you can switch between the wide ragchew element and the narrow HC4 dx element by flipping a toggle switch on the mic.

73,
Rob Atkinson
K5UJ