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Switching one APX mobile microphone among multiple APX mobile radios

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Is there a commercial product? Google was no joy.

If not, anybody rolled their own? I guess I'd just need to buy a J1 MMP jack to plug a mic into, and n jacks to receive jumpers out to the n radios' J1 jacks, and wire everything up to a 10-pole break-before-make switch?
 

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Pretty much have to cobble your own. Be careful. these radios are too new and unrepairable to risk electrical damage from one applying potential from one radio to another.
 

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Wow!
Motorola use to have a bunch of option modules called systems 90. They had a wild card board with interlocking switches and Form C contacts. It would be ideal to use one of those and the housings were later in bronze to match the Syntor. Now there is the DEK module. I have not looked to see if they have a wild card for that. Either way you could save a kilobuck.
 

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Syntor Systems 90 HLN1021A - System 90*s Auxiliary Switch Panel Not sure if this has interlocking switches. The DEK series has an Aux module described as well.
 

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Be careful. these radios are too new and unrepairable to risk electrical damage from one applying potential from one radio to another.

Mybe this would work for the switch and wire up adapter cables.


First you tell him to be careful because the risk of connection between two radios in this manner is serious, and then you recommend cheap Chinese garbage to do the job? What are you doing?
 

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First you tell him to be careful because the risk of connection between two radios in this manner is serious, and then you recommend cheap Chinese garbage to do the job? What are you doing?

Making it easier for him to roll his own. The same level of wiring care would be required to wire the $1200 box as to wire the ABCD box. Inside are simple selector switches.
 

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I guess I'm surprised that there isn't an off-the-shelf solution for this (for mobile command posts/trailers, vehicles, smaller dispatch centers, etc.).

I don't know why a normal break-before-make, 10-pole (or even 3-pole, if I only wanted to switch PTT, audio, and ground) rotary switch wouldn't work.

Now if I could just find a half-dozen or so of those jacks....

Thanks, all.

...R
 

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Countless times I have been in vehicles with multiple radios and they have mics all along the sides of the console. It's a lot more common than you think.
 

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For vehicles that are never going to have more than one operator, that's exactly my point: that stinks. I've been there. Having a central selector, or perhaps a button next to each radio, that switched a single mic to the desired radio would be so much better. And don't get me started on all of the mobile EOCs I've been in that had all of the speakers all mounted right up against each other. Turn your head and hear a call, and you have absolutely no idea what radio to respond to.
 

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Some vehicles it makes sense if there is a driver and a second operator. But for many, it is a cluster of coil cords. Speakers should be mounted spatially so that you can get a physical clue of who is calling.
 
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