[TenTec] Heil Microphone

[Gary Strong]

I purchased a Heil HM10 dual element mike with an adapter cable directly
from Heil for the mike.  I hooked it up this weekend and had an am radio
station in my transmit audio into the dummy load.  I called Heil and they
gave me the pinout, which I checked as was correct via their instructions.
However when I looked in my Orion II manual, it showed pin 5 going to mic
case ground, yet Heil puts pin 7 on mic case ground.  To make a long story
short, switched the case ground to pin 5 rather than 7 at the microphone end
and everything now works great.

 

Heil appears to have an error in their cable wiring for the Orion IIs that
only shows up when you have a strong am station near by.  I'm planning on
calling them in the morning and sharing with them this change.  Just wanted
to share it with the list in case others had this same problem.

 

On a slightly different subject, what settings do people use on the HW mic
gain (I have this at zero right now) and software gain (I have this at 65
right now) with their Heil mics?

 

 

Thanks,

Gary