HOME MADE MIC BOX

[CHOPPERDAVE]

I made this mic box to hold 4 mics.
works great

[Trapper267]

Hey Microphone Dave.
Looks good, But ya need one more jack on it. lol

C-ya Trapp

[CHOPPERDAVE]

i;ll probably ad 1 more male connestor to it later, im just to lazy to do it now

[patscavalier]

nice i like that
but it is missing the 5 pin din

[MDYoungblood]

Nice looking box there CD , now you can key up in quadraphonic sound, lol.

3's

Greg

[CHOPPERDAVE]

dont need a 5 pin, all my radios are 4 pin cept my rci 2950 and i have a 4 pin to 5 pin adaptor for that, plus, its easy to wire up a 5 pin connector if i need one

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Saturday, 23 February 2013, 10:05 AM

by the way , I was told i would need either individual switches for each mic or a rotery switch , it works fine without it.
heres how i wired the box.

[wi 544]

so when you key up one mic it only takes audio from that mic, even with all the others wired in the circuit. i would think it would be getting audio from all 4 mics??

[MDYoungblood]

No , most mics switches are wired to disconnect the element but with the way he has it wired you can talk with all the mics keyed at the same time but I would not recommend doing it.

3's

Greg

[cbtubeguy]

i did similar with a box i built, i used a 3-pole 6-position rotary switch and tied all grounds together as a 3-pole switch was realatively easy to find and its a good easy way to come up with a handy piece of kit so you can have two mics hooked up to the same radio in the same shack at opposite ends of the room,also if you connected another 6-position switch to each "mic-input" of the first 6-position switch you could build yourself a 32-way mic-comparator!, another thing that you could find handy is something i built just its a variation of this, to use a 6 pole 2 position switch and use the second two poles on the switch for the speaker switch, i made it so i could use the cb in my shed but not have to have a radio in there as in winter it would rust away where i live! granted ya need a power mic when running a dayum loing cable like that but in principle it works, i was even thinking of adding to it and having a patch-socket out in the garden!

[CHOPPERDAVE]

I GOT AROUND TO ADDING THE 5TH CONNECTOR , NOW, I CAN HAVE 5 MICS ALL HOOKED UP TO 1 RADIO.
HERES A NEAT LITTLE MIC TESTER CABLE IVE BEEN USING FOR OVER 30 YEARS, MAKES WIRING 4 PIN MICS SO EASY

[jessejamesdallas]

Hay what ya know...Chopperdave invented the first "Redneck Party Line!"

[CHOPPERDAVE]

hahahahahahahahaha,
theres no rednecks in canada hahahahahaha

[Leadfoot557]

hahahahahahahahaha,
theres no rednecks in canada hahahahahaha

Someone never hear of Red Green.... lol

[CHOPPERDAVE]

lol

[jimbowilly]

Hey ChopperDave,
Any chance you know of a supplier who carries straight mic cord in bulk rolls?
I'm looking to replace my curly mic cords, for the mics in my shack.
Thanks,
Jimbowilly

[CHOPPERDAVE]

I bought 25 feet of 5 lead straight microphone cord at the cb shop here in Toronto fir about 23 cents a foot

[jimbowilly]

Any chance I can get the name of this shop?
Possibly they will mail me some of this mic cord?
Thanks,
Jimbowilly

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Friday, 25 April 2014, 7:22 AM

Seems presently, I can find mic cord on ebay in 50ft rolls
Thanks for your response.
Jimbowilly

[Trapper267]

I remember this post CD.
I bought some straight mic cable from a local cb shop, 5 strand with shield for a whopping 2.09$ per foot.

[Stoneman]

Cool idea...Looks good too...Where did ya get those boxes at?

[CHOPPERDAVE]

Durham Radio in Oshawa Ontario Canada sells the straight cable

-- Sunday, 08 January 2017, 13:45 PM --

I bought the box at Radio Shack and picked up the connectors at a CB shop

-- Sunday, 08 January 2017, 13:46 PM --

If you have old radios laying around, you can take the connectors from them, otherwise the complete box will end up costing quite a bit of money to build

[sonoma]

there is a guy selling 6 wire cord for 64.95 for 100 foot on the bay right now. best price seen in some time now.

[CHOPPERDAVE]

The old Radio Shack desk mics had straight cords if you can find one of them mics, use the cord off of it.

[295 antenna]

Nice .I made a two mic box

[CHOPPERDAVE]

Ive also used musical instrument MIDI cables for keyboards the come with a 5 Din plug at each end and also in different colors, they are thinner then the other black cord. not too expensive , almost every music store sells them.

[Trapper267]

Going to make a mic box for 2 pin and 4 pin Browning's
Just need 2 alum boxes,