I am trying to hook up a Pr 40 and a mixer to my kenwood TS-850. I had the box made up that has push to talk line in line out with the 18 pin plug. When I hook this up to my mixer and the pr 40 and the radio I have no audio. I am hooking this all up to my computer so other can hear the sound when in a google hangout. Does anyone have and ideal if I am doing this right. Please let me know. please email me at tomkc9uda@gmail.com if you can please help out. Please send message to my email please as I do not check onto the forum that much
I have two PR40s, and use one on my TS-850S all the time. No mixer, no nothing, it just plugs into the front panel and sounds wonderful. What's the mixer for?
Edit: With a TS-850S you don't need to monitor yourself with a computer, the built-in MONI function works extremely well and you can hear exactly what you sound like just by using headphones.
Last edited by WB2WIK; 06-04-2012 at 12:57 AM.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
I don't know the model but it's a Heil mic as I can read (barely) the word "Heil" on it.
Has a foam pop/windscreen on it, which is what I'm guessing is throwing you off.
And as mentioned, there were a couple of episodes of 'Ham Nation' that showed how to interface the setup you're wanting to use.
Try going from the mixer directly to the audio input and see if you have signal. You'll have to make an adapter from the mixer, which looks like a TRS, to whatever the input is on the radio.
Wiring will be tip to the mic pin and tie the ring and sleeve wires to the ground pin at the radio plug input, not at the TRS plug on the mixer side.
Also, was catching up on the 'Ham Nation' shows I've missed lately and just yesterday watch the episode you were in Steve; nice stuff there and hope you do it again some time.
>> ... Has a foam pop/windscreen on it, which is what I'm guessing is throwing you off.
No - that is not a PR-40, period. Might be a PR-20.
>> ... I don't know the model but it's a Heil mic as I can read (barely) the word "Heil" on it.
No Heil mic that I have purchased new was ever "difficult" to read "Heil" emblazoned on it. You can "barely" read "Heil" on your mic? Then it may be either not a new unit, a counterfeit unit, or a really used unit. But, still - that is not a PR40.
Yeah, a PR40 looks like what's below. It's big and fat and has the same diameter for the whole microphone except where it narrows down for about one inch where the XLR connector goes (and that's also the "mounting tube" for the mike).
It's real different from the other Heil mikes.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
No Heil mic that I have purchased new was ever "difficult" to read "Heil" emblazoned on it. You can "barely" read "Heil" on your mic? Then it may be either not a new unit, a counterfeit unit, or a really used unit. But, still - that is not a PR40.
It's not my mic, I was referring to being able to barely make it out in the picture.
Heil PR 40 Mixer and Kenwood TS 850.
Originally Posted by KC9UDA
