[TenTec] Orion mic connections

[torreym at mchsi.com]

Looking at the terminals of the Orion mic connector, there a 9 volt connection 
to one of them.  What's that for?

Torrey N9AUJ
> 
> 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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