Looking for an new mic.

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"If you can't beat the competition.... Buy them !!!!"

 

astatic 636L is a realy good mic for the money

 

HEIL is my choice ....

 

A good way to extend the life of a mic cord is something I started doing with land mobile (business & public safety) radios. A lot of them have gone to telephone-style modular plugs, which are horrible for physical abuse tolerance. Fortunately most CBs aren't, but it might happen.
Unless you actually need every inch of the mic cord to reach your operating position, take a quarter-inch P-clamp cable holder, like what you'd use to hold a run of RG-58 to a wall, wrap it around the cable near the front of the radio. Pass the threaded thumbnut (or whatever hardware you use to hold the radio in the bracket) through the hold in the clamp tabs, and put the bolt back in place. Arrange the cord so there's enough slack between the clamp and the plug so that it doesn't make too abrupt a turn coming out of the plug, and "steer" the clamp so the direction the cable leaves in doesn't block your view of the radio's controls.
Alternatively, the clamp's tabs can sometimes be just wedged in between the bracket and the side of the radio.
In this way, no amount of pulling on the mic will put a strain on the plug.
It works really well for me; hopefully it'll extend the life of some of your radios on the road, too. There seems to be a corollary of Murphy's Law, which states that the severity of a mobile radio failure will be inversely proportional to the proximity of a decent CB shop that can fix said failure quickly, correctly, and inexpensively.
Your mileage may vary, of course....
-- Handlebar --

 

Vintage Lafayette Telsat ssb-50 I need a mic for it. 4 pin Y configuration any help out there?

 

Just about any Mic can be wired for it. Problem maybe with finding the wiring diagram for it or the Mic plug...Bet you could pic out whatever Mic you want tho and take it to a CB Shop and have them wire it up for you for little of nothing.

CB Tricks.com has allot of old radios Mic diagrams listed on their site if your thinking of doing it yourself.

 

The center pin gets the audio from the mic. The "top" two pins of the Y are grounded in the radio, so the bottom is the PTT line. It's just a regular 500 - 600 ohm dynamic, nearly any modern non-amplified mic should work fine. That radio has a Range Boost (mic amp) circuit, so a power mic would be redundant.
-- Handlebar --