Dan,

Jim Brown K9YC or Joe W4TV would be a better resource than I am, but if it were mine, I would preserve the balanced configuration through your switchbox and only connect the mic low to ground at each radio's plug.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 9/14/2015 1:12 PM, Dan Atchison via Elecraft wrote:
I am building a switchbox to allow use of a Heil PR-781 microphone to be used by my K3S and K3, the switchbox using XLR connectors. I note that in the Heil XLR cable ended in an 8-Pin Foster has mic low (-) tied to ground and (+) tied to mic high.

Knowing that the XLR pin 1 should be chassis ground, my question is, "At the switchbox, should I tie XLR pins 1 and 2 together and only switch XLR pin 3 between radios?" IOW, should XLR pins 1 and 2 be chassis grounded or should I chassis ground pin 1 and switch both XLR pins 2 and 3?


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