Old HP scanner

From: Russ Blakeman <rhb57_at_vol.com>
Date: Mon Feb 11 21:24:07 2002

And yet why should we see any difference between the US and UK - we both
only use different supply voltages :-)

There are CB an ham ris here that use the Amphenol type that you're talking
about but most of the new radios are equipped with a plain old large DIN
plug. I am about the only one that knws how to solder int his area I think
and I consequently do a lot of mike replacements for local CB and ham
operators, as well as SO-239/PL-259 coax connections. Even an older
Lafayette SSB radio has a regular 5 pin DIN, I know as I use one daily. The
last radio I had, an EF Johnson Messenger 124M had a connector made by
Amphenol similar to the threaded ring type, but was quarter turn locking.

Now on request I have converted a few mobile radios from standard
male/female DIN to the type you're talking about, both the make and female.
Seems over-the-raod truckers don't much care for their mic plug slipping
out of the overhead mounted radio and smacking them in the teeth.

=> -----Original Message-----
=> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
=> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Tony Duell
=> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 6:59 PM
=> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
=> Subject: Re: Old HP scanner
=>
=>
=> > What we call DIN connectors are also called microphone
=> connectors by CB, ham
=> > and audio enthusiasts...even power supplies use DIN and mini-DIN.
=>
=> Odd... In the UK, the CB/amateur radio 'microphone connector' is a
=> circular thing, a little larger than a DIN plug, with much larger pins
=> (say 1/8" diameter). And a screw locking ring. Often the plug is the
=> chassis-mounted part and the socket the cable mounted part.
=>
=> Serious audio enthusiasts use XLRs, of course...
=>
=> -tony
Received on Mon Feb 11 2002 - 21:24:07 GMT