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Hi,
Merry Christmas to all! Recently, I purchased a surplus Non-public safety microphone(NM6242B) to use in place of a commander microphone that I gifted away in a trade. I love it, it works great.
Aside from that...how are you supposed to wear it with your radio on a duty belt? If I clip it on my shoulder with the antenna pointing up-I have a ton of excess coax/chord sticking out, and if I wear it with the antenna pointing down, the microphone itself rests right below my rib cage.

Any ideas or tricks to get this to work out right? I have looked for pictures, but none of them have done any justice...and it is really hard to find a picture from when London used their analog system.

Thanks a bunch...and if I posted this in the wrong area forgive me, I just didn't know how to go about asking this!

This may help http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=50445

years ago when I was an Auxillary police officer we had the Genesis straight cord PS mic. I had my radio on just a belt clip and used a leather "keeper" its just a loop of leather with 2 snaps on it . I ran the cord though it while on my duty rig . When I changed to a semi auto I had my clip case in the front and ran the cable though the top flap.

KD7FLY wrote:Hi,
Merry Christmas to all! Recently, I purchased a surplus Non-public safety microphone(NM6242B) to use in place of a commander microphone that I gifted away in a trade. I love it, it works great.
Aside from that...how are you supposed to wear it with your radio on a duty belt? If I clip it on my shoulder with the antenna pointing up-I have a ton of excess coax/chord sticking out, and if I wear it with the antenna pointing down, the microphone itself rests right below my rib cage.

Any ideas or tricks to get this to work out right? I have looked for pictures, but none of them have done any justice...and it is really hard to find a picture from when London used their analog system.

The NM6242B Public Safety Speaker/Microphone can be worn a couple of ways to get rid of the excess cable. (1) With the radio on the right hip the spkr/mic cable is taken across the back and over the left shoulder an clipped to the left shoulder with the antenna pointing down.. (2) With the radio on the right hip the spkr/mic cable is taken across the back and under the left arm pit, then clipped to the left shoulder with the antenna pointing up..
London's Met Police did it the easy way, they wore stab vests and any excess cable was tucked inside the vest..
If anyone is wondering, the NM6242B is a noise cancelling Public Safety spkr/mic for use on UHF in the UK with the MTS2000 and the MT6000E, a 99ch version of the HT1000 with a top display. It looks like a standard non Public Safety JEDI series spkr/mic but has a straight cable and an SMA antenna connector on top of it. Also has three buttons on the side of it, vol up/down and emergency. The same antenna can be used on the radio and/or spkr/mic, often the radio and the spkr/mike were BOTH fitted with an antenna!
The NM6242B was designed for use at UHF and performs badly at VHF.

Awesome!
I never thought about using one of the leather belt stays, and that works out well with what you said Metradio! In accordance to uniform code, I have to keep the radio on the left hip, with the microphone on the left shoulder or clipped on the shirt's button line coming from the left hip...silly right?

I love the mt6000e's, and their history. I had one years ago, but I traded it off because I couldn't reprogram it and got stuck with an ASIII that I never used to begin with-I'm still mad about getting rid of it. I got it on Ebay...and I have yet to see anyone selling one that ships to the US. (Anyone see one, lately? haha)

thank you for all of the help with this silly, but complicated matter.

HAPPY NEW YEARS!

Metradio wrote: The NM6242B Public Safety Speaker/Microphone can be worn a couple of ways to get rid of the excess cable. (1) With the radio on the right hip the spkr/mic cable is taken across the back and over the left shoulder an clipped to the left shoulder with the antenna pointing down.. (2) With the radio on the right hip the spkr/mic cable is taken across the back and under the left arm pit, then clipped to the left shoulder with the antenna pointing up..
London's Met Police did it the easy way, they wore stab vests and any excess cable was tucked inside the vest..
If anyone is wondering, the NM6242B is a noise cancelling Public Safety spkr/mic for use on UHF in the UK with the MTS2000 and the MT6000E, a 99ch version of the HT1000 with a top display. It looks like a standard non Public Safety JEDI series spkr/mic but has a straight cable and an SMA antenna connector on top of it. Also has three buttons on the side of it, vol up/down and emergency. The same antenna can be used on the radio and/or spkr/mic, often the radio and the spkr/mike were BOTH fitted with an antenna!
The NM6242B was designed for use at UHF and performs badly at VHF.

Josh, I see you have joined the HT600E group, if you have a look at the last two weeks worth of messages you will see that there are some MT6000E's for sale

Yes,
I did join-and I am looking through the posts now, just having some fun trying to figure out how to use Yahoo Groups...haha.

Thanks again!

Metradio wrote:Josh, I see you have joined the HT600E group, if you have a look at the last two weeks worth of messages you will see that there are some MT6000E's for sale