<html><body><div>Some of you guys are lucky.</div><div><br></div><div>I've tried to hook the sm-8 between two icom 7000's. And it's RF central. Even put snap on chokes on mic cords.</div><div><br></div><div>Shawn</div><div><br>On Feb 22, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Daniel May <woodyboy.dm@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div> Although it was the microphone of choice, I believe there were RF problems withe SM-8 on the Fireball XL5 as well.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:9px;color:#575757" data-mce-style="font-size: 9px; color: #575757;">Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S®4, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone</div></div><br> <br><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Rich <tea4one@verizon.net></div><div>Date:02/22/2015 1:25 PM (GMT-05:00)</div><div>To: 450@lists.vhfwiki.com</div><div>Cc:</div><div>Subject: Re: [450] SM-8 microphone</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Calibri'; color: #000000;"><div>I have had no RF problems with mine either, the kenwood MC-85 (similar to the sm-8 except you could have 3 inputs) I used to have was the complete opposite...</div><div> </div><div>Rich</div><div style="FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline" data-mce-style="font-size: small; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Calibri'; font-weight: normal; color: #000000; font-style: normal; display: inline;"><div style="FONT: 10pt tahoma" data-mce-style="font: 10pt tahoma;"><div> </div><div style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5" data-mce-style="background: #f5f5f5;"><div style="font-color: black" data-mce-style="font-color: black;"><strong>From:</strong> <a title="n1ujs@toast.net" href="mailto:n1ujs@toast.net" data-mce-href="mailto:n1ujs@toast.net">Bob</a></div><div><strong>Sent:</strong> Sunday, February 22, 2015 1:10 PM</div><div><strong>To:</strong> <a title="450@lists.vhfwiki.com" href="mailto:450@lists.vhfwiki.com" data-mce-href="mailto:450@lists.vhfwiki.com">450</a></div><div><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [450] SM-8 microphone</div></div></div><div> </div></div><div style="FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline" data-mce-style="font-size: small; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Calibri'; font-weight: normal; color: #000000; font-style: normal; display: inline;"><div dir="ltr">A lucky exception, as is always possible.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div> </div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:25 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kc1wj@kc1wj.com" data-mce-href="mailto:kc1wj@kc1wj.com">kc1wj@kc1wj.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid" data-mce-style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: #ccc 1px solid;"><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span><div style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: arial" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: arial;"><p>I have mine hooked up the 706 and the kenwood. no RF issues.<br> <br> <br>Quoting Bob <<a href="mailto:n1ujs@toast.net" data-mce-href="mailto:n1ujs@toast.net">n1ujs@toast.net</a>>:</p><blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 12px; MARGIN-LEFT: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid" type="cite" data-mce-style="padding-left: 12px; margin-left: 2px; border-left: blue 2px solid;"><div dir="ltr">Agreed. Will absolutely drive any radio and adjust to match response as well. True, the mike "a/b" switch does not isolate the necessary connections. For me, not an issue...."all radios must have a devoted microphone".....a reading from the book of Weedy......chapter 1, paragraph 2, "shack practices"</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div> </div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Shawn Zupp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shawnallan@me.com" data-mce-href="mailto:shawnallan@me.com">shawnallan@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid" data-mce-style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: #ccc 1px solid;"><div><div>PIcked one up on West Friendship, Maryland hamfest.</div><div> </div><div>What a great mic - really drives audio, great communications audio.</div><div> </div><div>only wish i could hook up the 2 mic outputs at the same time without getting RF……</div><div> </div><div>Shawn</div><div><br>On Feb 22, 2015, at 05:36 AM, Bob <<a href="mailto:n1ujs@toast.net" data-mce-href="mailto:n1ujs@toast.net">n1ujs@toast.net</a>> wrote:<br> </div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Anyone who still needs one, there is one on QRZ....$110 is a bit pricey, but they are getting rare....<br> </div><div><span>_______________________________________________<br>450 mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:450@lists.vhfwiki.com" data-mce-href="mailto:450@lists.vhfwiki.com">450@lists.vhfwiki.com</a> <br> <a href="http://lists.vhfwiki.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/450" data-mce-href="http://lists.vhfwiki.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/450">http://lists.vhfwiki.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/450</a> </span></div></div></blockquote></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>450 mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:450@lists.vhfwiki.com" data-mce-href="mailto:450@lists.vhfwiki.com">450@lists.vhfwiki.com</a> <br> <a href="http://lists.vhfwiki.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/450" data-mce-href="http://lists.vhfwiki.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/450">http://lists.vhfwiki.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/450</a> <br> </blockquote></div></div></blockquote><p><br> <br></p></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>450 mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:450@lists.vhfwiki.com" data-mce-href="mailto:450@lists.vhfwiki.com">450@lists.vhfwiki.com</a> <br> <a href="http://lists.vhfwiki.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/450" data-mce-href="http://lists.vhfwiki.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/450">http://lists.vhfwiki.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/450</a> <br> <br></blockquote></div><div> </div></div><p><br></p><hr>_______________________________________________<br>450 mailing list<br>450@lists.vhfwiki.com<br>http://lists.vhfwiki.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/450<br></div></div></div><div class="_stretch"><span class="body-text-content">_______________________________________________<br>450 mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:450@lists.vhfwiki.com" data-mce-href="mailto:450@lists.vhfwiki.com">450@lists.vhfwiki.com</a> <br> <a href="http://lists.vhfwiki.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/450" data-mce-href="http://lists.vhfwiki.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/450">http://lists.vhfwiki.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/450</a> <br> </span></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>