Plug in a speaker/mic. The Kenwood ones usually have an earphone socket that is easy to change if necessary.
On 10-Dec-10 08:37, Jeff Yanko wrote: > > Let me explain. I have the TH-D7(A) and used a plug adaptor to go from the > 1/10", 2.5mm, recepticle to 1/4" for the headphones. Everything worked > great, for about a year, then I noticed the audio was cutting in and out. > Turns out the weight of the adaptor and sometimes I used a splitter to > record, made the contact very poor. Now if I plug in the HMC-3 head set > there isn't a problem since the two plug system, Speaker-Mic jack, holds and > maintains the connection very well. If I go back to the single audio out > plug, the problem resurfaces. > > What you could possibly do is find and solder a 1/10, 2.5mm, plug to a wire > then run a couple feet to the splitter so there will be little or no weight > on the recepticle at the HT. > > Figured I'd save others from a headache. > > > > 73, > > Jeff WB3JFS > Las Vegas, NV > DM26 > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)"<amsat...@wd9ewk.net> > To:<amsat-bb@amsat.org> > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 9:57 AM > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: more about the TH-D72A for satellites > > > Hi Bob! > >> I, too, have been considering "retiring" my TH-D7A(G), and you just sold >> me >> on the new Kenwood after our contact on AO-51. Sounded great. > > Several commented on my audio during the two passes I worked, as well as > "selling" them on the new radio. If a bunch of D7s show up for sale, maybe > a few of them will end up in the hands of those interested in working > satellites. > >> Ordered mine from HRO a few minutes ago. Also got the drop in charger. >> Since they changed battery to a Li-ion, the D7A charger (NiCad) will >> not work. Hope these new batteries last longer than the old NiCad's. > > Do you have a drop-in or fast charger for your D7? I think the wall-wart > charged my battery in 4 or 5 hours on Saturday night. The battery had a > partial charge in it, enough to power on the radio and perform a full reset > before letting it charge fully. I haven't looked at the model numbers for > all > the accessories closely, since so few of them are in the stores now. I'll > get > some of them as they arrive in the stores on the slow boat from Japan. > > I have an old Kenwood speaker/mic, and the external power cables are > the same as for the TH-F6A and TH-D7 (among others), so I had all the > accessories I could get for the radio right now. I didn't use the > speaker/mic > yesterday; I used the mic on the face of the radio, and plugged my audio > splitter (including adapter to step down from the 3.5mm plug on the splitter > to the 2.5mm speaker jack on the HT) with earpiece and audio recorder > into the speaker jack. > > I've read the other posts on this thread, and I will take a look at the DUP > setting when I get home tonight. It is possible that the way I had it set > up > (transmit on VFO B, receive on VFO A) is the only way it works on the > D72. If that is the case, then Kenwood did it right by their choice of VFO > A having to be the receiver when in DUP mode. VFO A is more sensitive > than VFO B. Being able to use the joystick-like 4-way control button on the > face of the radio to tune up and down made it easy to make the adjustments > on the receive VFO, without having to use the knob on the top of the radio > (press A/B to switch VFOs, then press down on the joystick button to move > down 5 kHz, then A/B again to get back to VFO B before transmitting - all > done with the thumb that also pressed the PTT on the side of the radio). > Packet in general, as well as looking at the APRS functionality beyond > simply transmitting my location, will be something I take a closer look at > some other time in the near future. > > I apologize if I appear to be going into too much detail on what I've done > in setting up the radio before I went on the air with it yesterday. I'm > coming > at it as someone who hasn't used Kenwood HTs in at least 15 years until > the past few weeks when I bought a TH-F6A, and no experience with the > TH-D7. If you know the TH-D7, you'll be able to get running quickly with a > TH-D72. The manual would still be a useful read for those people, to learn > about the new functionality in the TH-D72. > > For those interested in reading the manuals without shelling out cash first, > Kenwood has a good download site for instruction manuals of its ham gear: > > http://manual.kenwood.com/en_contents/search/ > > Just enter "TH-D72", and you will see two sets of links. The first set are > for the PDF version of the printed manual supplied with the radio, in > several different languages. The other links that have "CDROM" in the > description are for the detailed manual that is supplied on a CD with the > radio. For software used with the radio (virtual COM port driver, along > with the Memory Control Program) along with software for other Kenwood > radios, go to: > > http://www.kenwood.co.jp/i/products/info/amateur/software_download.html > > I haven't looked on the CD that came with my radio, since I didn't want > to pull out the CD/DVD drive and plug it into my netbook last night. That > was why I went to these links to download what I might already have on > that CD. :-) > > 73! > > > > > > Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK > http://www.wd9ewk.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > -- Nigel A. Gunn, 1865 El Camino Drive, Xenia, OH 45385-1115, USA. tel +1 937 825 5032 Amateur Radio G8IFF W8IFF (was KC8NHF 9H3GN), e-mail ni...@ngunn.net www http://www.ngunn.net Member of ARRL, GQRP #11396, QRPARCI #11644, SOC #548, Flying Pigs QRP Club International #385, Dayton ARA #2128, AMSAT-NA LM-1691, AMSAT-UK 0182, MKARS, ALC, GCARES, XWARN, EAA382. _______________________________________________ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
