Jack... are you sure you have C59b hooked up with the positive side
going to GROUND?
Rick
Jack Schmidling wrote:
So I get my new D104 yesterday and spend a few hours removing the
un-needed junk from it and fire up for the NoonTime Forum expecting
all sorts of kudos and no one can hear me. One guy that could said it
sounded tinny and crummy.
So I switch to the Kenwood and they all say wonderful.
I went of over the whole mic again, plugs, wires, grounds and fixed a
few things and converted it into a boom mic. I make another contact
and he says tinny but could be his receiver... nice guy. He suggests
a few caps to check so back to the bench with it.
After looking around, I find that the mic wire goes directly to the
grid, no resistor divider and no input cap. I now see what that
strange mess at the end of the shielded wire is... what is left of a
1m resistor.
I replace all this stuff and it still sounds crummy. Then I find that
R22 is missing in the cathode circuit of the output side of the first
audio. I replace this and it still sounds crummy.
To establish "crummy" I set the mic near a nice sounding radio and set
up a shortwave receiver in an adjacent room to listen to while loading
up a light bulb.
In all cases, the Kenwood with the handheld dynamic mic sounds better.
The only thing (I have said this many times) that I see left as a
possible problem is C59a/b. These were resistors when I started
working on it. I replaced these with 47uf and 67uf caps as that was
all I had left at the required WV. They are supposed to be 15mf.
I am not sure just what these do so the question is... could these
cause a lack of lows in the audio?
If not, any other ideas?
js
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