Icom SM-8 U/D buttons?

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Icom SM-8 U/D buttons?

Martin-2
List,
According to the Icom SM-8 Desktop Microphone manual, there is only 1
wire for the Up and Down buttons.
So i suspect Icom feeds a positive voltage for up and a negative voltage
for down (or vice versa).
How to adapt this to make it work with K3?
I had good audio reports so far.

Martin

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Don Wilhelm-4
Martin,

According to the SM-8 microphone schematic, the UP button connects the
UP/DN line directly to ground, but the DN button connects the UP/DN
button to ground through a 470 ohm resistor.  You would have to convert
these closures to 2 lines each of which is a circuit direct to ground,
so you would have to provide some sort of level sensing at the input of
whatever adapter circuit you would come up with.

Much microphone information can be found on G4WPW's wonderful collection
of microphone connections/diagrams/etc.  Look at
http://www.timroberts-vk4yeh.id.au/G4WPW_mic_connections/index.htm#icom

73,
Don W3FPR

DM4iM wrote:

> List,
> According to the Icom SM-8 Desktop Microphone manual, there is only 1
> wire for the Up and Down buttons.
> So i suspect Icom feeds a positive voltage for up and a negative voltage
> for down (or vice versa).
> How to adapt this to make it work with K3?
> I had good audio reports so far.
>
> Martin
>
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Martin-2
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Don, W3FPR, was fastest as usual :-)
Problem solved, thanks.

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