Just had a cool Jedi mic come in !

[mbnv992]

Just had this delivered the other day with more radios I ordered. Never seen a Jedi mic like this. Model is NMN6194A. Looks to be brand new old stock, not a scratch anywhere on it, all the plastic is still over all the labels. Seems to be a public safety mic. 3 buttons on the side, rubber PTT, and RF connector ( so it will NOT work with a XTS series only a Jedi ).
Works great on all my UHF MTS2000 radios. Anyone seen a mic like this before ?

 

[W9OHM]

Yep, '90s era public safety. That coiled cord created many issues and were quickly swapped to straight cords.

 

[ElroyJetson]

It's an old version, one of the first made for the Jedi series. That style was very common with the Saber and Astro Sabers, though.

 

[mbnv992]

It's an old version, one of the first made for the Jedi series. That style was very common with the Saber and Astro Sabers, though.

I actually found and just got in yesterday a brand new straight from Motorola OEM Astro Saber Jedi style mic. I was floored when I ordered it that they still even had one left in stock but low and behold, it actually came in the mail on Saturday in its original OEM Motorola box complete with a warranty hahaha

 

[exkalibur]

If I recall properly they were popular in the UK back in the day.

 

[MTS2000des]

Correct, these were made for EU Jedis, I bought an ex UK MTS2000 from their old Smartzone system in the mid oughts from an Ebay seller and got one of those RSMs with it. It's wasn't a 6194 though, those were original 1993 era Jedi PSMs sold here. The UK variants had a straight cord and a different P/N with a B revision IIRC

 

[jeepsandradios]

Had tons of those in the past. We were UHF conventional for city police. The county was VHF conventional. Cops would work both areas and complain when the radio didn't work. They would swap the UHF PSM with rubber duck on the VHF radio and complain. Somewhere I have a box with some. A few had straight cords but majority had coil cord.

 

[ElroyJetson]

That touched a nerve. People who do stupid things to their radio antenna because "it's poking me in my roll of fat above my belt" and then complain that their radio with a badly mutilated antenna doesn't seem to have any range. I'm one of those very direct people who'd tell them straight to their fat face, "Your radio came in with a compaint that it had no range. Its antenna was badly mangled. Here's a new antenna. This will work well. In this shape, and this condition, it will deliver the best performance possible. Your organization is being billed 35 dollars for it. If you bend it, break it, reshape it, cover it in duct tape or aluminum foil, chew on it, or change it in ANY way, it will reduce the range of the radio and may even break the radio's transmitter. Leave it alone if you want it to work. If you do any of those things to this antenna, you are not allowed to complain when the range of your radio starts to suck. THE ANTENNA IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE RADIO. WITHOUT A GOOD ANTENNA, THE RADIO WILL NOT WORK WELL!!! Do you understand?"

This little speech, when given to the radio users one at a time, actually seemed to help reduce the number of mangled antennas that needed to be replaced. When they are made to understand that the antenna is not just a handle, that it is EVERYTHING to the performance of the radio, then they start to treat it with a little more care.

 

[wa8pyr]

This little speech, when given to the radio users one at a time, actually seemed to help reduce the number of mangled antennas that needed to be replaced. When they are made to understand that the antenna is not just a handle, that it is EVERYTHING to the performance of the radio, then they start to treat it with a little more care.

I've made a similar speech more times than I can count, not only in relation to mutilated antennas and using the antenna as a handle but even more often in relation to 1/4-wave "shorty" antennas (which suck).

Sometimes they pay attention.....

 

[a417]

Ugh, that coiled mic wire...

Yep, '90s era public safety. That coiled cord created many issues and were quickly swapped to straight cords.

The ol' ear scratcher. The coiled wire would get stuck on something and you'd tear the lapel off your shirt if you weren't careful.

 

[ElroyJetson]

I actually have heard a school teacher refer to the radio's antenna as a handle. Not kidding. Her radio's handle looked like it had been in a seven car pileup on interstate 80.

 

[brndnstffrd]

I actually have heard a school teacher refer to the radio's antenna as a handle. Not kidding. Her radio's handle looked like it had been in a seven car pileup on interstate 80.

Id hate to be her husband

 

[chrismol1]

You mean to tell me the antenna isn't there for a spot to clip on the speaker mic?????? How many times you see FDs and EMS with speaker mics clipped to XTS1500/2500 sagging, nearly 90 degree, antennas.....uhhh

UK Motorola and Europe Moto had some cool stuff back then too, I think it was Storno was the name of one of Motos Euro groups, interesting stuff

 

[com501]

IT is much easier to take your UHF quarterwave antenna, loop it back on itself and make a ring with a cable tie. That way the 'handle' is much more robust.

 

[Cognomen]

I frequently get UHF portable whip antennas folded and taped into a loop to make them "shorter", with the complaint being that the radio has poor range.

 

[surfacemount]

I've only known one real antenna that deserved the derision it got, and that was the 'pigsticker' for the 800mhz STX. I've never understood why people had issues with the others.