From: m151@cox.net
Date: Wed Aug 27 2003 - 06:43:37 PDT
If you are unable to get it working Fair Radio sells the microphone units by themselves.
>
> From: "Jim Newton" <jnewton@laurel.com>
> Date: 2003/08/27 Wed AM 03:49:06 EDT
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Subject: [MV] MV RADIO RELATED -- Need Instructions for Microphone
> Connector...
>
>
> Calling List Radio Experts...
>
> I'm restoring a cool old OD military bullhorn megaphone unit (data
> plate says "Speaker Amplifier, A Unit of Public Address System,
> AN/PIQ-5" and has a sticker "Overhauled Tobyhanna Army Depot, Date
> 7126"), and it has a 4-pin connector on the microphone cord.
>
> The small stainless steel button plunger on the microphone activates a
> microswitch inside the mic body, but the microswitch is NOT triggering
> the amplifier. The microswitch and plunger are working and close the
> circuit when pressed. If I remove the mic connector and short the
> correct 2 pins on the female microphone jack on the body of the
> megaphone, the amplifier is activated. So I know the problem is in
> the wire between the microswitch and the connector pins.
>
> So, I need to get into the connector to check the connection from the
> individual wires to the pins.
>
> QUESTION:
> ---------
> Is there a way to disassemble this connector to get at the backside of
> the pins? If so, how?
>
> Here's a couple of pictures of the connector:
>
> http://www.cucv.net/mic_01.jpg
> http://www.cucv.net/mic_02.jpg
>
> Thank you!
>
> --
>
> Jim "Ike" Newton
>
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