Mic wiring Shure 444d

[W2MLH]

Good day all hope everyone had a great holiday, i'm lookin to wire up my Shure 444d to my Yaesu FT-857d for SSB use, anyone try this or have the wireing for the mic to the radio?? I have plenty of RJ-45 connectors...Thanks all have a great day..73s

Marc

[K0BG]

You'd best forget it. The impedance of the 444 is too high for the Yaesu. Will it work? Maybe, but you won't like the audio quality.

[VE7ABC]

If the Shure mike is dual impedance, it will work just fine and dandy on your Yaesu.  I use one with my FT1000 MKV and have been told by many my signal sounds fine.  If you email me (VE7ABC@RAC.CA, I'll look for the instuction sheet I've got and scan it and then email it to you.  You will have to of course make some type of adapter up.
73..

[WB0MCO]

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Best of Luck,Dave

[VA7CPC]

If it's _not_ dual-impedance, your local music store should have little impedance-matching transformers -- about 100 kOhms to 600 ohms.

I haven't tried one on a high-impedance mic, but it will certainly improve things, and may be "just right".

               charles