[TenTec] Orion Jupiter mic connections

[Duane Grotophorst]

Amen, the notion of ground referencing mic leads is
just plain silly.

Duane
N9DG

--- "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj at 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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