Just got this radio. Has a 6 pin mic plug looking for an adapter 6 pin to 4 pin.
any ideas where to get one?
Thanks in advance
any ideas where to get one?
Thanks in advance
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President lincoln II +
- Thread starter undertaker
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Always best to solder a new mic head on than use an adapter. Those adapters are kind of heavy and bulky and could put stress on the mic connector especially if you bump into it often.
Just unsolder the Lincoln's 6 pin mic head and wire it to to the mic with the 4 pin. On the President radio, 1 of those pins are for the mic up/down buttons and I believe pin 4 isn't used. Pin 6 is a power supply Just cap those unused wires off. Check the schematic to be sure of wiring, Duh!
An easy job to do and I would assume you won't be using the stock mic anyway.
Just unsolder the Lincoln's 6 pin mic head and wire it to to the mic with the 4 pin. On the President radio, 1 of those pins are for the mic up/down buttons and I believe pin 4 isn't used. Pin 6 is a power supply Just cap those unused wires off. Check the schematic to be sure of wiring, Duh!
An easy job to do and I would assume you won't be using the stock mic anyway.
What's wrong with the stock microphone? The Lincoln 2 electret microphone sounded phenomenal on my neighbors Lincoln 2.
That would make total sense with a factory tune. They aren't exactly designed for wide frequency response which the stock microphone has.
Unless the radio has been drastically altered it won't sound too great with the wide frequency response of the stock microphone. With some drastic modifications to the radio the stock microphone sounds almost as good as a Heil PR40 on some high-end ham gear.
So what radio hacking did this guy to his radio to get the stock mic to sound " phenomenal "
Just what is the frequency response of the stock mic? and quote your source!
Again this admits the radio has to be "drastically altered" to sound good. Sounding good is subjective to one's opinion.
Personally, I can't stand the latest craze of this so-called HI-FI audio. The best audio sound starts with your voice, that's something your born with and some people have the gift of a nice broadcast quality voice. Other people don't have that and no amount of EQ, high end mic, or outboard processing is going to compensate for that.
People are just as guilty of this in the Ham world as much as the CB. Trying to sound like FM on the AM or SSB modes is like trying to squeeze blood from a turnip, they are different modes and operate with their individual characteristics so their sound is naturally different. FM's quality sound is derived from frequency deviation so as the modulation increases, so does the bandwidth at the frequency of the carrier wave form. This is what gives FM the superior sound and why it's the mode of choice for commercial broadcast music and broadcast TV before they went digital. Unless people have an old car with an old radio that is AM only, FM is what most people listen to for rich sounding audio for music. The only time I listen to AM is for news radio or to catch a ball game when I'm on the road.
I have a home recording studio complete with a 24 track ADAT recorder, 24 channel board , and all kinds of outboard processing from Parametric tube EQ's and tube Compressors and other digital effects that I could easily incorporate into my radio shack but why? ( feel free to look at my pics in my gallery if you haven't already)That's all for STEREO processing and the full bandwidth and full range frequency response to reproduce HI-FI stereo music recordings not narrow band monaural radio audio.
I never witnessed the modification process all I did was witness the end result. when the guy connected his Heil PR 781 to that same radio I didn't really notice much difference between it and the stock microphone except maybe a little bit more Low response which was tapered within the radio itself. sounded like the guy was sitting right next to me talking.
when he got a mixer from one of his neighbors that's when all his problems started because his audio levels were cranked up too high
You didn't really answer the questions,
How about the "wide" frequency response of the stock mic because you did state in a manner of first hand knowledge of it twice..what is it?
Do you really know what you are talking about here or are you just making assumptions and generalizing?
How about the "wide" frequency response of the stock mic because you did state in a manner of first hand knowledge of it twice..what is it?
Do you really know what you are talking about here or are you just making assumptions and generalizing?
I know what I like to hear. and even though this guy sounds like Winnie the Pooh in person it was quite refreshing to be able to hear every little syllable and every little sound of his voice knowing that regardless of who was on the other end of the microphone it would have sounded great for them as well. unfortunately at the time I did not have my line level recording setup in my vehicle so this was the best I could do at the time as far as documenting what I was hearing and this was with the stock microphone and a couple weeks later when he tried the Heil PR 781 it sounded almost identical.
Nice videos but you still didn't answer the question, I won't press anymore.
Thread hijacker alert!!!
I just love it when people say "hifi audio"...guess they're trying to say is wider then the tinny stock sound.
And new fad?? I gues my Ranger is "new"
I just love it when people say "hifi audio"...guess they're trying to say is wider then the tinny stock sound.
And new fad?? I gues my Ranger is "new"