Portable Push-To-Talk switch help

"Seagram" writes:

Portable PTTs come in two flavors: the kind that pass audio through all the
time, and the kind that only pass audio through when the radio key is
pushed. You need the kind where the audio can get through all the time.

It's easy to convert one that doesn't always pass the audio though. It's
just a matter of bridging one side of the switch. I hacked my old DC
switch and it's worked well for years.

(I had a flight instructor swear up and down that it couldn't be done.
I hated flying with him. That didn't last.)

--kyler

Kyler Laird wrote:

I hated flying with him. That didn't last.

What didn't last; the hatred, or the flying?

George Patterson
This marriage is off to a shaky start. The groom just asked the band to
play "Your cheatin' heart", and the bride just requested "Don't come home
a'drinkin' with lovin' on your mind".

"G.R. Patterson III" writes:

I hated flying with him. That didn't last.

What didn't last; the hatred, or the flying?

The flying.

The trainer Aztec we flew had a PTT that didn't allow using the intercom.
I learned this after starting the engines but the instructor wouldn't let
me jump out and grab my (modified) PTT from my Aztec because "it wouldn't
work." Instead, he disconnected the PTT so that I had to do all of the
radio work. Then he railed on me to do the "any traffic in the area,
please advise" crap. That did it. We headed home and I was done.

Especially in a foreign (to me) high-volume environment (Chicago), I did
not want to deal with that kind of person. It delayed my training quite
a bit but I regard it as a good decision.

--kyler

Kyler Laird wrote:

Then he railed on me to do the "any traffic in the area,
please advise" crap.

Automatic "DickHead" instructor alert....

You can use the switch you have, if you put it between the intercom and the
radio, instead of between the intercom and the headset.

"Kyler Laird" wrote in message
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"Seagram" writes:

Portable PTTs come in two flavors: the kind that pass audio through all
the
time, and the kind that only pass audio through when the radio key is
pushed. You need the kind where the audio can get through all the time.

It's easy to convert one that doesn't always pass the audio though. It's
just a matter of bridging one side of the switch. I hacked my old DC
switch and it's worked well for years.

(I had a flight instructor swear up and down that it couldn't be done.
I hated flying with him. That didn't last.)

--kyler

"Doug Campbell" writes:

You can use the switch you have, if you put it between the intercom and the
radio, instead of between the intercom and the headset.

Yeow! Do people really do this?! All to save the addition of a wire???

I would hate to have my passengers' mikes transmitting everytime.

--kyler