[TenTec] Yamaha CM-500 boomset use with Orion II? ATTN K9YC

[amsctalx at comcast.net]

I saw those connectors, but had the materials on hand to make one. I made the mistake of simply biasing to the ring. It's working now. 


Mike Alexander 

amsctalx at comcast.net 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richards" <jruing at ameritech.net> 
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com> 
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 1:10:32 AM 
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Yamaha CM-500 boomset use with Orion II? ATTN K9YC 

I have used both, and the Yamana CM-500 is a way better headset. 

You MIGHT get him to wire up a connector for it... W2ENY and another 
guy, Alan WA2AC, who is on ebay as vendor nameAudio-Comm, also makes 
them, just as well for substantially less, and has better commo with 
customers (we used him to make a pile of them for a contest station) 
but they both make good ones. 

I can say, after testing, a GREAT MANY expensive and inexpensive 
headsets for this purpose that many work well, Koss, Sennheiser, 
Yamaha, and several $5 cheap Chinese headsets from eBay... but the 
Yamaha provides good value at a good price point, and you will be able 
to get acceptable warranty service from it. I prefer the KOSS sets 
with lifetime warranty for cheap backups, and use Sennheiser sets as 
main daily use sets. The can range in price by as much as $100 and they 
all work acceptably well. A KOSS SB-45 set replaced a Yamaha CM_500 
during the MI QSP Party last year when the Yamaha cable failed. No one 
could see any difference in performance and we set a record placing 
First in the contest. (shameless plug.) 

But I would back Jim on the CM-500 over the set you mention - not that 
it will not work OK, but I feel the quality of the Yamaha set is 
sufficiently higher for the price to say something about it. 

===== Just MY take... K8JHR =============================== 



On 12/9/2011 4:37 PM, amsctalx at comcast.net wrote: 
> I appreciate the input, but I already own CM-500(s). 
> 

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