[TenTec] Ten Tec "banana" mic upgrade?

[jones_winston at bellsouth.net]

Ten-Tec made banana mics with both ceremic and electret elements. The ceramic mics were 
ElectoVoice with the Ten-Tec brand on them. (Ten-Tec founder Al Kahn also founded ElectroVoice.) 
The ceremic version was originally designed for the Argonauts and Tritons. They had the 3-conductor 
phone plugs. The electret version had a four-pin plug and was designed to be used with an outboard 
speech processor that Ten-Tec also made as an accessory to the Tritons. I once had the processor. It 
was black color and matched the Argonaut 515.

The banana ceramic mics never seemed to work that well with my Argonauts and Tritons. I used the 
Shure 444 which had much more "punch."

73, Winston  K4CWQ 



> From: "Denton" <denton at oregontrail.net>
> Date: 2006/10/16 Mon PM 03:49:15 EDT
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
> Subject: [TenTec] Ten Tec "banana" mic upgrade?
> 
> Hi all...
> I recently was given one of those old TT banana mics, and I believe they 
> have a crystal element in them.
> I am thinking of replacing the element with either a dynamic or a condenser 
> mic...
> Has anyone done this before? thanks 
> 
> 
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