[TenTec] 8 Pins?

[Duane - N9DG]

Ah yes, I had forgotten about the shield/mic ground issues
with the current 4 pin configuration.

I concur with your remarks about the balanced mic inputs.
That is perhaps one of the best ideas incorporated into the
FTDX 9000 series radio. Everybody should have already been
doing that for decades.

Duane
N9DG

--- Richard Detweiler <rdetweil at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Duane,
> 
> On this I'd like to add a comment.
> 
> One of the issues with the Orion is the design of the Mic
> Jack,  It really 
> needed another pin to return the sheild of the ground. It
> would be nice also 
> to handle new 'balanced' mics ( sorry for my terminoligy
> here ). Many of us 
> have to solder the sheild to the mic jack case to acheive
> the proper 
> grounding and audio performance,  ( my self included ). 
> Heil even has 
> instructions for modifing the Orion to handle some of the
> high end balanced 
> mics.  More pins were needed to handle all this so the 8
> pin jack is very 
> very welcome addition.  I hope it will handle all the Mic
> issues arising 
> from Orion I
> 
> I'm also Hopeing TT will sell their mics with the new jacks
> already set up.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Rich
> K5SF


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