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Desk mic wiring

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I recently bought an older Motorola desk mic at a flea market and I'd like to see it it is possible to wire it up for a Maxtrac or Radius and, if so, how.

It is very similar to the one in this picture but the PTT bar on mine is split and has Monitor on one side and Transmit on the other, much like modern Motorola desk mics. Mine was missing the sticker with the model number so I have no idea what the exact model is.

There was no plug at the end of the cable, only terminal rings. There are 5 wires. Shield, green, white, black, and red. The red wire on mine has a small label on it that says "audio" and that's it.

Any ideas as to how I should wire this up? Google turned up no useful info.
 

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Sounds like an old consolette mic. Easiest way would be to get a maxtrac mic cord and swap it out.

You can haywire it to the 16 pin connector but IIRC there is no mic bias there so you would have to add that somehow to get TX audio from the mic element.

For the colors: green PTT high, black PTT low, red mic high, white mic low. Black, white and shield would all go to common ground in a maxtrac.
 
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Looks like the picture isn't working. I could have sworn I edited my original post to have one. Regardless, the mic is one of those that looks like a handheld mic on a stand. This pic isn't mine. Mine has a split TX bar with Transmit and Monitor.

I may try the 16 pin idea just to see if it works. How would I go about swapping out the cord?

I think this mic is pretty cool so I just want to use it in some way rather than having it sit unused.
 

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There are two screws that hold the front of the mic, the part that looks like a hand mic, on the stand. Get a couple photos of the inside, mic element, ect.

Some of these desk mics have a dynamic element and that will not work with later Motorola radios.
 
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