Amplified D-104 Not Keying Radio?

[Wire Weasel]

Good deal T23

Yeah I buy '104's and Turner +3's alot to put Tweety Birds in them and I run across wiring changes and other silly things all the time and have to straighten them out and put things back where they are supposed to be.

 

[T23]

Whats a "Tweety Bird"?, This mic sounds very nice, it has that tube/ribbon mic sound that I tried and failed at before with the studio equipment. I don't have to be right at the mic too for it to pick up my voice so I dont have to turkey neck over it.

Just great!

T23

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

glad to hear this. if ya wire for kenwood id turn d104 up all the way
then adjust the mic gain to keep ya within the alc zone.this is
how i do it with cbs/exports and sounds great

just turn everything wide open
and let her rip

Bad advice for use with the Tm-241. Very bad advice. The TM-241a is a 2m FM radio and sounds fine on a stock mic. Cranking ANY amplified mic up all the way results in a lot of background noise and the TM-241a does NOT have a microphone gain control on it that is user adjustable. The modulation, or deviation since this is an FM radio, is set by an internal pot adjustment. An over deviated radio is unwelcome on 2m as it is much louder than the rest, no need for that whatsoever, and it will splatter on some receivers especially narrow band repeaters and sound like crap. Keep the deviation to 5 KHz and all will be fine.

 

[hotrod]

Bad advice for use with the Tm-241. Very bad advice. The TM-241a is a 2m FM radio and sounds fine on a stock mic. Cranking ANY amplified mic up all the way results in a lot of background noise and the TM-241a does NOT have a microphone gain control on it that is user adjustable. The modulation, or deviation since this is an FM radio, is set by an internal pot adjustment. An over deviated radio is unwelcome on 2m as it is much louder than the rest, no need for that whatsoever, and it will splatter on some receivers especially narrow band repeaters and sound like crap. Keep the deviation to 5 KHz and all will be fine.

captain is right if it dont have a mic gain control..i do know if ya run mic gain wide open
with a d104 you may get a squeal or just LOTS of back ground noise. so i tried
turning down the mic gain and it helped lower the noise . so then i turned up
d104 to compensate.done this for nearly 20 years.of course i wasnt on fm
and i had a mic gain.so id recommend turn d104 down all the way and start from there
probly 1/4 of turn will be as far as you be able to go without a mic gain imho
results may vary

 

[T23]

I know, I have the gain on the mic stand set to about half, Cranking the gain pot on the mic I know did not make any sense at all, especialy on FM with over deveating and such.


T23

 

[T23]

Here is a sample audio recording taken from my computer of the D104, in case anyone is wondering what language is being spoken, its Hungarian.


T23

 

[hotrod]

I know, I have the gain on the mic stand set to about half, Cranking the gain pot on the mic I know did not make any sense at all, especialy on FM with over deveating and such.


T23

yes you asre correct. but whern i said that i didnt know you was talking
about a radio that was on fm and had no mic gain.otherwise wouldnt have
posted that.hows it sounding anyhow. i know some that tried d104s on 440s
940s and they were ok but a mc 60 sounded better

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

yes you asre correct. but whern i said that i didnt know you was talking
about a radio that was on fm and had no mic gain.otherwise wouldnt have
posted that.hows it sounding anyhow. i know some that tried d104s on 440s
940s and they were ok but a mc 60 sounded better

The MC-60 sounds good on almost any Kenwood radio. I myself have an older dual impedance MC-50 that I use on my TS-820S HF rig and I constantly get great audio reports. Better in fact than my FT-857 gets even with it's audio processing and TX DSP filters.

 

[mackmobile43]

love my mc-60 on my ts-430s

 

[jazzsinger]

The MC-60 sounds good on almost any Kenwood radio.

in my experience the mc60 works well on every radio i ever tried it on including numerous uniden/uniden clone multimodes, its simply a quality microphone.

 

[mackmobile43]

yup