> > Our FD group used a K3 and Heil ProSet this year, and we were really > hoping to configure the K3 to have the speaker and headphones both > active. When we tried to use the SPKR+PH configuration, we found that > the speaker and headphone levels were mismatched such that when the AF > gain was adjusted to get adequate headphone level, the speaker was > excessively loud, to the point where the loud speaker audio was annoying > to the operator wearing the headphones. > - snip - > ed N9EP >
Here's what we did for our K3 CW station at FD: The K3's Line Out was configured for "=PHONES" (this is a fairly new firmware feature that sends both rcv audio and sidetone to Line Out.) The Line Out fed a 20 Watt hi-fi audio amplifier which drove a big honkin' loudspeaker which sat outside the CW tent. The gain pot on the audio amp was used to control the PA volume - we played it loud during the day and were a little more conservative in the wee hours of the morning while some of the crew caught a little sleep. The effect was perfect - there are few things as satisfying as hearing your ace CW ops running pileups all over the FD grounds. 73, john WA1ABI _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
