[TenTec] Orion Mic Woe's

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Ken, that's meaningless.  Sorry.  My mic worked first time right out of the
box too.  But suddenly on certain bands in the middle of CQWW contest I had
RF in the audio, big time!  The contest was the first time I had tried to
work all bands with a linear.

It's all a question of environment, especially the relationship of where the
antenna is, related to the shack.

Eric has a worst case scenario that many of us here in Europe have.  The
antenna is center-fed on a mast sticking out of the roof of the house, and
the shack is just a few feet below it.  You have a less than perfect ground
and lots of RF in the air.

I had problems too, but I was able to cure them with some standard means of
removing RF from the equipment (I used a quarterwave counterpoise on the
band troubling me).

When I dissected my mic (shure 444) I found that only one of the two mic
wires is shielded, and the mic- and PTT Gnd are tied together.  Still, it
worked OK right out of the box - initially.

The previous email restating what Paul Clinton distributed is worth its
weight in Gold.  I highly recommend everybody check their mics and if
necessary, rewire them as Paul suggests.  That's what I'm doing tonight.

Still, thanks for you interest and comments, Ken.  I appreciate everyone who
tries to help.

73
Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Ken & Linda Burrough
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 12:22 PM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion Mic Woe's

No, not on my Orion.  The 705 worked first time out but my Goldline GM-5
needed to be rewired.

Ken/w8keb
Flushing, Ohio
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: W4ABW at aol.com 
  To: tentec at contesting.com 
  Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 2:35 PM
  Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion Mic Woe's


  Am I reading all this right ? If you buy the Orion and the matching mic,
you 
  need to re-wire the radio or mic before it will work properly ?

  Tnx
  Al
  W4ABW
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