Sounds good to me! What is the supplier and part number so I can order! 73 Keith W8GX
On Jan 5, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Jim Brown wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:20:07 -0600, Tom Hammond wrote: > >> Since the posting of the link to my K3 Speaker Splitter PC board, > I >> have received a number of requests (orders if you will) for PC >> boards. > > While I appalud your willingness to share, there is another good > solution. What we really need is a "stereo to mono" breakout cable > that has a 3-circuit male plug wired for stereo, split to two mono > jacks. Here's the problem -- Radio Schlock, Worst Buy, and their > ilk pushed the real connector mfrs out of the market with cheaply > made connectors and adapter cables, but they don't sell the cable > we need. > > The GOOD connectors are made by Switchcraft and Neutrik. In North > America, we can buy these parts from vendors like Newark, Allied, > Digikey, etc. The catch is that they cost more than a buck, and > hams can be cheap, so they think they're too expensive. They're > not -- they are of much higher quality, don't have the melting > insulation and lousy contact material problems of the cheap > connectors, and are far more robust mechanically. > > The solution is simple. Simply belly up to the bar and place an > order with one of these real electronics vendors for real > connectors and build your own adapters. > > Now a brickbat to Elecraft. Speakers are individual products, they > don't come wired with 3-circuit plugs, and as noted above, it's > not easy to buy parts to build adapters. What Elecraft SHOULD have > done is provide TWO output jacks, not one. They played cheap (or > dumb, to the extent that they were ignorant of the marketplace). > Now to fix it? Rebuilding the I/O panel is costly. A better fix > for their design error is to provide the unique breakout cable > that is required. > > It has long been good practice when selling quality electronics > products to ship unique connectors and or cable assemblies with > the product, especially when they are not commonly available in > the marketplace. This breakout cable is exactly such a unique > part. > > 73, > > Jim K9YC > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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
