Are you able to get US mail via the Embassy? Last time I was there (13 or 14) they cut off US mail for Expat contractors.

Can you make friends with the Embassy como guys and borrow some gear from them? How about your company's purchasing department? You really shouldn't have to spend any of your own money for things like this. Submit a purchase requisition. There are waivers for Itar.

Are you aware of the Pringles can trick? Works for booze.

Tac-Sky is an airsoft brand that has a lot of adapters and headsets, as well as Z-tactical. I have a tac-sky headset and ptt for Yaesu and baofeng and it is loud enough for my mostly deaf self. They are not tier 1 by any stretch but are better than putting the radio on your shoulder and cranking up the volume.

Would something like this work? Disco32 is usually my go to for this stuff. Not sure if it falls under ITAR though.

Amplified PTT

This is another possible option

I’ll second Disco32.

When you have a low impedance, dynamic microphone element and need to interface it to a radio that is designed to work with a high impedance, electret microphone element, then you need to do one of two things:

a) Add a proper impedance adapter. For avionics this is easy. All that expensive box is is a mic preamp that is powered by the mic bias voltage coming out of airplane/radio. But since we don't know what the microphone bias voltage is coming out of the DP series radio it's a crapshoot whether this would work or not. Same thing for the DISCO, plus with the DISCO you've got a connectorization challenge.

b) Swap the microphone element on your mic boom to a high impedance, electret type element. This is the surest method. Go find a high impedance headset mic element. They are a dime a dozen because all CIVILIAN aircraft headsets use them. Beg/borrow/steal a CIVILIAN aircraft headset (military aircraft headsets are low impedance) and do some surgery. Note that this method assumes that there is a direct connection between the radio and the mic element and that your PTTs and adapters don't do any bullshit to that connection.

Oh I believe. They know how to use it, but they don't know what makes it work or how it works. However that doesn't make them much different than most anyone else. That's why your question comes up at least twice, if not three times a month here alone. No doubt it's much more often on the airsoft forums. And, since most folks don't know how to even read a schematic, nobody does any real engineering, it just becomes this game of swaptronics, where once the magic formula is obtained it goes out on all the airsoft forums everywhere.

Snarf/scam/beg/borrow/steal a CIVILIAN aircraft headset. Get some clip leads. If the mic element works, do some surgery. Or you can buy high impedance electret elements easy enough. It's still a crapshoot because without detailed spec's, schematics and/or pinouts nobody can really tell you what will work or not. You just have to try it.

Let us know how you make out.

http://www.tactical-sky.com/col.jsp?id=103
Scroll down to find the ptt adapters. I didn't look for motorola.

I'm interested in your solution. Could you post a link if you get a chance?

Looks like it should work. Just more cable to strap down.

Interesting. Thanks! Good luck.