[BC] Bird connectors...

[RON DOT'O SR.]

Back when I was a commercial sound man we called them "Hi-Z" connectors as they were used on the high impedance mic inputs on the PA amplifiers.

Ron Dot'o
Salem, OR
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  On Thursday 13 October 2005 11:52 pm, Burt I. Weiner wrote:
  >Those were cooly known as "Amphenol Microphone connectors".  The ones I 
  >remember had a dot that connected to the center conductor of  a high 
  >impedance microphone.
  >
  >Either that or I'm wrong.

   Your not wrong. I still have one or two laying around somewhere.

   I've also been known to cut the pin off of a PL-259 male connector
   and make one when needed.

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