Stuck Mike

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:02:34 -0500, "Jim Fisher"
wrote:

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
Tell you what. Call us Tuesday morning, toll free, at 1-888-9ALEXIS, and
ask for Mary. She'll verify the story, if you'd like.

Mike was obviously the stuck-mike guy you wrote about, Jay. I'd be a little
sensitive about it, too.

For the record, I wasn't in an airplane that day. And, as yet, no one
has ever notified me that my mike was stuck in transmission. But I'm
waiting...

I do feel 'stuck', though. So I let my personal circumstances affect
my post. Somehow I got the same feeling with Jay's. But apologies if
I'm off-base.

--Mike

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:jPFcd.410304$Fg5.66323@attbi_s53...
Obviously (or so I thought) anyone with a basic knowledge of how a 2-way
radio works knows that the receiver is necessarily cut off during
transmissions -- but apparently there are a fair number of people who don't
have a firm grasp on this concept.
Jay,
At one time, one of the ground wires in a PTT switch broke and
appeared to allow both transmission and reception at the same time.
Rick was at the left seat. In realizing that his PTT switch was not
working he asked me to communicate with ATC. While taxiing, we kept
testing the intercom system and headsets : "Testing 1,2,3. Do you hear
me OK? Does this headset work better. Hmm, what's going on here?
Should we go on or should we abort this flight? etc". Typically, I
kept my hands/feet clear of the controls when not being the PIC, but
since I had to operate the PTT switch, my hands were resting on the
yoke. At one point, Rick yelled at me: "Keep your hands off the yoke,
you made me nervous!". Few minutes later, the tower called us:
"N30703, are you having some radio problems? We could hear all kinds
of conversation in your cockpit"!!!!!

dave wrote in message ...
My klx135 has the "T" for transmit. It stops transmitting after 35
seconds and displays "stuck mic". I think the led on my intercomm also
turns red when tranmitting - I'll have to check that out.


Most King radios made in the last 20 yrs. have the xmitter cutoff
and some sort of indicator on the panel (can't remember if the NARCOs
do). In addition to that most properly wired radios will provide a
sidetone in the headset. The sidetone alone should be enough to clue
you in.

Whenever I've had a stuck mike, the first thing I noticed was that
the sidetone was still there. This was followed by a glance at the
radio to see that the "TX" indicator was still on in the display. If
you're too distracted to notice those things, I don't think another
light on the panel will help.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

Icebound wrote:



Does the side-tone of the transmitter not take over his intercom?

I suppose every audio panel is different but if I am monitoring a second
radio on my KMA-24 I will hear any transmissions on that radio even
though I am transmitting on my selected radio.

Few minutes later, the tower called us:
"N30703, are you having some radio problems? We could hear all kinds
of conversation in your cockpit"!!!!!

Yeah, that's one good thing about the situation I heard -- we were on
Unicom, not ATC!

THAT would've been more than just embarrassing for the poor guy...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"