[TenTec] Orion

[Toby Pennington]

Eric, the Drawing 2-4 on page ten is incorrect.  The proper drawing for 
proper cable wiring is 2-5 on page 10. Info was sent out about this some 
time ago.

The shield wire must be connected to the shell of the mike connector and the 
other end to the shell of the mike itself. ( On the 706 this would probably 
be the goose neck).  This is the way my Studio 1 is wired.

I actually sent my 705 to TT and had a Heil cord  wired up like the 2-5 
drawing and that got rid of the RF.  That was about a year ago so don't know 
if the 706's are wired this way now or not.  But I would check the wiring on 
the 706 to be sure.

Toby W4CAK


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric SENSI" <eric.sensi at skynet.be>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 9:24 AM
Subject: RE: [TenTec] Orion


> Hey thanks for the info, I think that's why I had a lot of troubles trying
> to connect the Heil Goldline 4 mic to the Orion, it was simply unusable ! 
> I
> thought the microphone was a speaker when I pushed the PTT ! :-)
>
> If I understand everything well, are you trying to tell me that I have to
> change the wiring between the Orion and the 706 mic ?
>
> If so, I really needed help because I found that it's stupid to do so with 
> a
> genuine Tentec accessory that should work with the radio... I'm a little 
> bit
> lost because on the Orion manual, page 10, under the 2-4 drawing Scott 
> says
> : "...Please note that mic cables for the Tentec 705 and 706 microphones
> .... are already wired in this configuration" and "Many connection cables,
> ..., are not and have the potential to introduce stray RF or distortion 
> into
> SSB audio".
>
> So what ? What's the deal ? I choose the 706 mic ONLY for that reason to
> avoid making mistakes by doing myself a wrong cable/connection to the 
> Orion
> !
>
> So if there's someone to light my candle, I'll be the most happy guy on
> earth :-)
>
> As someone told me also off this reflector (again, thanks to all for your
> time and patience with me !), I have to try the MFJ-931 HF artificial
> ground - reading what's this device is capable of, I think it is maybe THE
> solution but again, no one could be 100% sure of the effect here !
>
> I'm pretty sure we'll find the solution one day.
>
> One last word : I LOVE MY ORION, but I really have to face a lot of 
> troubles
> not especially with the radio itself, but also with the environmment this
> radio is supposed to work in !
>
> Best regards, Eric.
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> Eric, I found some good stuff on this, written by Julius, W2IHY, the guy 
> who
> builds and sells mic equalizers.
> See: 
> http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/TenTec/2003-11/msg00309.html
> 73
> Rick
>
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