Dale & others in the know...
Which MH36 mike is this? There are some varying suffixes out there
(something like MH36-A9, as a prob incorrect example) - dunno if this
is for a wiring difference, signalling difference, etc. Or are they
just older vs. newer variants, improved in some manner yet are still
interchangeable? Dunno...
I have a (3 mos old) FT-1500 [the new "metal brick" funky-lookin' 50W
2m FM mobile] that has an MH36 (*I think* - rig's not next to me now)
of some kind on it - would this one work?
And assuming the proper MH36 were obtained, is the keypad active for
'817 control, or is it just for DTMF? [I gather DTMF is CPU-generated
but would the CPU honor/process key sequences in RX mode for rig
control?]
It'd be interesting to "rape" an MH36 and put the dynamic mic & any
support electronics in it, but I do wonder about acoustic properties
of the internal case/mount structures - perhaps that's why there's
no keypad. [That's why cheap telephones sometimes sound tinny -
really lowpass or hipass - and it's not necessarily due to the
mic/spkr elements. I'll betcha when Western Electric way-back-when
designed the orig standard telephone handsets, they did some acoustic
analysis on the handset's physical design.]
73s Bill N6AOT
wiese@...
William M. Wiese Jr.
Application Engineer
Philips Semiconductors
SIIG/Storage & Imaging Infrastructure Group
Sunnyvale, CA
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--- In FT817@..., "Dale Fajardo AH7D" <ah7d@a...> wrote:
Hi...
Spoke with folks (Amateur Radio Techs) at Yaesu today and asked if
it will come with a DTMF mic and they said no [BIG SNIP]
you can use (buy) the MH-36 mic that has the DTMF pad. [SNIP]
... MH-36 though the sound quality will not be as good.
basically LED backlighting or is Yaesu using blue and amber LEDs?
