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Turner Super Sidekick to Realistic 5 pin help

rixdafix

rixdafix

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I inherited a very clean SSK. I've searched and just couldn't find a solid answer. Did Turner use red for TX and black for RX? Bonus if someone can just tell me where shield, white, red, black go on Realistic 5 pin connector (TRC-458). Also, the gain control underneath is turned clockwise almost all the way. Super bonus if I can find a more likely starting point or which direction to turn to lower gain. Thanks.
 
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Very easy to figure out if you have a multimeter, an unmolested RS mike with the original connector and the Turner SSK. You will of course need to disassemble both mics enough that you can reach both ends of the wires with the multimeter probes. You are correct that Red is Transmit. Black is probably the wire red needs to connect to when you key up the mic. White is audio+. Braid is ground. Original RS mic will give you all you need to know as far as which wires go to which pins on the RS 5 pin connector. Hopefully you are using a new 5 pin connector and aren't planning on splicing wires or some other crazy thing!

As far as gain goes I would start at about 50% and go from there.
 
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Just found this. No wonder I was scratching my head. I thought they had rx and tx swapped at the plug but Turner used red for rx, black for tx way back when. Also, this came with a 4 pin Cobra to 5 pin Realistic adaptor and I was just wanting to make sure everything jives before keying up. Meter confirms, it appears this is wired properly. Good call on 50% gain to start. Thanks, Rick
 
rixdafix said:
Wow I noticed your signature and just checked my logbook. We made a good contact 4/2/23.......on 16L! Must have been part of our make 16lsb great again initiative lol. Pretty cool.
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Oh cool! That's great that we connected. I made quite a few WWDX contacts during that 16LSB initiative.......... Hope we can connect again on the airwaves soon!
 
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