> I had two old 4 1/2" speakers I picked up at a yard sale ... Many of us have decent hi-fi speakers sitting there on the desk already - in my case a lovely set of Bose PC speakers, a fantastic present from my YL. PC speakers (other than Bose anyway!) are cheap. They are amplified, have a wide frequency range and none of the booming or rattling resonances which my homebrew speakers always seemed to have.
The Bose speakers have two sets of stereo inputs so I can run both the PC and the rig into them at the same time, controlling the levels independently on the PC and K3. It shouldn't be too hard to provide 2 inputs on others if you're willing to open the box and experiment. Alternatively, I guess you can run the rig's line level output into the PC sound card input, and configure the card to play it through the PC speakers, using the cound card's input level control to set the rig level and output volume control for both PC sounds and RX audio. You *may* need to use ferrites or decouplers to keep RF out of them but I've never had a problem with any of mine. Avoid any with nasty cheap switch-mode PSUs like the plague though! Most seem to run fine on 13.8V byt YMMV. 73 Gary ZL2iFB ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
