Wiring RAM Mic

[Dean Abramson]

Thanks, Phil. You don't need to take a photo. It would just make me jealous, anyway.

For some reason, Standard Horizon made this RAM3 mic (for the Matrix 2150 and others) with a much shorter cord. I really don't understand the thinking there.

But in any event, we have what we have, and are proceeding.

Today Marvo and I figured out a pretty good arrangement. We do not use shore power, so we came up with a pretty slick way to have the mic's socket inside the former shore power inlet (after we stripped its innards out). So not only will we have the rubber cap on the socket, but the entire thing will be inside the SS fitting, with its major-league cap.

As I age more, I will get all stooped over, so then I will be nearer to the mic! :-) Talk about your silver lining.

Thanks for your input.

Dean

[mahalocd36]

I hope your cord on the SH works out better than the ICOM ones. We have been pretty disappointed with the ICOM remote mike. We are on our second one, and now that ones flaking out. (jiggling the cord, holding it a certain way makes it work , or not).

It's time for a letter to ICOM I suspect. These things aren't cheap.

Anyways, my advice would be to be gentle with it - don't stretch it out all the way, don't kink it , etc. Hopefully yours will be more durable than ours.

[Larry DeMers]

Mike,

I would caution against drilling a hole around the stanchion base of the pedestal. The steering gear has a large metal plate that happens to be located there (on my Edison pedestal anyway), and you would have to drill through that while clearing the steering pulleys mounted there. It's pretty tough stuff, and the additional thickness that it creates makes using a 'waterproof cable gland' impossible.
Try to mount it down the inside of the binnacle, following the path of the compass light wiring. Be careful about the route it takes and also the gears and chain down below deck, as you route the cable towards the VHF location.

You can buy a "Mike Clip" from any marine store or chandlery. It mounts with two small screws. I put mine into the back of the binnacle mounted cockpit table and binnocular/drink holder.

You will love that mike. Most now have active sound cancelation technology in their mikes, so that wind noise, engine noise, just about anything that is continuous, gets rejected, using some pretty cool science.

They look at the incoming audio that the front microphone has picked up..should be your voice, and whatever background noise there may be. They also look at audio provided by a back mounted small mike inside of the body of the microphone. This one also picks up the backgrond audio and very little of your voice. The signal is routed to an inverter and then it is combined with the output of the first, front mounted mike.

The result is that the front mike background noise and voice, and the inverted background noise are summed together, leaving only the voice signal. The noise signal has been canceled out like it never existed. Clear crisp communications.

Cheers,

Larry DeMers
s/v DeLaMer
CD30c Sailing Lake Superior full time..after the hard stuff leaves