After years of using a Aviation Headset with a hand mic with the old Icom A21. I finally purchased from SkyGeek part number PA-81. It worked except for the PTT so I had to open the mic jack and rewire it. I used this drawing and got it back together. It seems to be working with the radio. Next will try it with the intercom. This sounded good in the intercom but I received bad transmit audio reports on the air so I added a 470 pf cap at the mic element to see if it was RF getting back into the radio. Will try it again soon. This is on a Sky Lite SL-800 headset that has an electret mic element. One year later the resistor failed open and the PTT quit. I redid it and played with the resistor values a bit by adding several 33k in series and trying it at 33, 66, 99k and there seemed to be an increase in audio level at 66k and I redid it with a 100k so not to have to put 2 resistors in the little adapter. The small cap seemed to help with RF getting into the audio in some cases.
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