{"id":224,"date":"2020-07-14T19:38:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T00:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.k9wkd.net\/?p=144"},"modified":"2025-01-01T11:17:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T17:17:39","slug":"using-a-heil-headset-with-the-xiegu-g90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.k9wkd.net\/index.php\/2020\/07\/14\/using-a-heil-headset-with-the-xiegu-g90\/","title":{"rendered":"Using a Heil Headset with the Xiegu G90"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I want to use my Heil Pro-Micro headset<\/a> with my Xiegu G90 when operating portable. Normally I would go to the Heil website for information on interfacing my headset to a radio and unfortunately Heil does not have any information for any radio by Xiegu. So I started looking into how I could make the interface myself. The following is the pin out for the MIC Interface from the radio user guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Xiegu G90 MIC Interface diagram from users guide<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Looking at this connector pin 1 is on the far right and counting up going to the left. There are two pins here that I am interested in for connecting to my headset; Pins 5 (MICE) and pin 6 (MIC). I will use a 3.5mm (1\/8″) mono female jack, connecting the MICE (MIC Earth or return) to the shield and MIC to the tip. I am also interested in adding a PTT button so I can use pins 4 (PTT) and pin 7 (GND) for that function. The other signals are used for the button controls on the microphone that I will not be using. I put together the following simple diagram for how I plan to implement the interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Xiegu G90 to Heil Headset Interface with PTT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have a few small plastic boxes that I use for this type of project. For simplicity I decided to cut a short Ethernet CAT 5e to provide the connection to the radio. It would probably be better for the microphone input to use something like a RG-174 coax but I don’t know how to get that into an RG45 connector so I just decided to keep the cable to the radio fairly short. This is a very simple project and took less than an hour to complete. A photo of the tested and working interface box follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Completed Headset Interface<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I might consider putting this in a smaller box just to reduce the space this takes up in my go box. Otherwise this is working great for my needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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