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Operations => Emergency Services & Operations => Topic started by: wmackirdy on April 12, 2018, 11:09:52 PM

Title: Headset for a MICOM 3 ALE radio
Post by: wmackirdy on April 12, 2018, 11:09:52 PM
Has anyone ever had one, seen one, know where one can be acquired?

My hearing is not the best, and a set of head phones increases my chances of hearing what is being said.

thanks

Wayne MacKirdy
KE0PLE
RMR-CO-805
Title: Re: Headset for a MICOM 3 ALE radio
Post by: NovemberWhiskey on April 12, 2018, 11:44:21 PM
I would talk to your higher echelon comm staff.

For the Micom 3F, it looks like there's a pair of 6-pin Amphenol (maybe) connectors on the back, the pinout for which is in the manual, and which could be use for driving a monaural headset.

Given how expensive these radios are, I would be loath to interfere with one in a way that could damage it.
Title: Re: Headset for a MICOM 3 ALE radio
Post by: chuckmilam on April 12, 2018, 11:46:00 PM
Quote from: NovemberWhiskey on April 12, 2018, 11:44:21 PM
I would talk to your higher echelon comm staff.
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Given how expensive these radios are, I would be loath to interfere with one in a way that could damage it.

Very good advice here.
Title: Re: Headset for a MICOM 3 ALE radio
Post by: SarDragon on April 13, 2018, 01:59:54 AM
The 3F and the 3T headphone audio out is in the microphone connector. The rear panel pic in the manual I have only shows a 44-pin D-type connector for accessory connections.
Title: Re: Headset for a MICOM 3 ALE radio
Post by: wmackirdy on April 13, 2018, 02:42:12 AM
Agreed that is a very expensive radio, and I have no intentions, nor the ability, to jury-rig anything.
Title: Re: Headset for a MICOM 3 ALE radio
Post by: Lord of the North on April 13, 2018, 03:48:31 AM
If you look in the Communications part of NHQ website, in the general library is a diagram and instructions to adapt headphones to the Micom
Title: Re: Headset for a MICOM 3 ALE radio
Post by: wmackirdy on April 26, 2018, 02:47:10 AM
Hmmm...can't find it. Thanks anyway!

Wayne
Title: Re: Headset for a MICOM 3 ALE radio
Post by: SarDragon on April 27, 2018, 02:18:04 AM
Quote from: Lord of the North on April 13, 2018, 03:48:31 AM
If you look in the Communications part of NHQ website, in the general library is a diagram and instructions to adapt headphones to the Micom

Got a link for that? I couldn't find it, either. PM it if you think it shouldn't be on here.
Title: Re: Headset for a MICOM 3 ALE radio
Post by: Brad on April 27, 2018, 02:46:31 AM
You have to have extended access to the Comm Library. File attached (non-FOUO), and a picture of a pair we made at NESA last year. They can be daisy-chained together so an instructor can monitor while a student talks, just plug in a headset or a pair of earbuds even.

(https://i.imgur.com/nhs15oE.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/4TvE8AM.jpg)