I'm amazed about all this waffle about speakers and stereo plugs and adaptors. We (well most of us) passed an exam to show we were competant at "basic electrical knowledge"
It takes little longer to make up such a lead or adaptor to suit our personal requirement than it does to type a message to the reflector asking where one can be purchased! Total cost of two mono in line sockets and one stereo plug plus a short wire, all from the junk box. To run two mono speakers from the rear of the K3 works wonderfully. In fact using a pair of 3" x 3" speakers ( from some old vehicle, these have Nokia printed on the back) the audio is as good as I have heard in years from a communications rx. It is great to use headphones, permanently connected and be able to switch speakers on instantly should it be desired. 73 David VK3DBD On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> 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
