I solved this issue by installing a male RCA connector on each of my speakers. Then I bought a long RCA to 1/4" in headphone cable that didn't have a strain relief type thing on it. The strain relieve that I'm talking about are the ones that don't allow the cable to split. I then ripped the two cables apart so that each channel could go different directions.
I then when its time to go pull the cable off at the speakers and then pull the RCA ends into where the radio is and extract the cable. Heck if I really wanted to make travel easy (and I may end up doing this)... I'll just buy another cable then all I have to do is pull the speakers off with their little pig tails and they'll plug right into the travel cable (which can probably be a shorter version of what is in the shack)... ~Brett (KC7OTG) On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 16:09 -0600, Tom Hammond wrote: > Man... what a BIG discussion... whew! > > Early on with my K3, I found that having two speakers (L & R) plugged into the > rear panel SPKR jack of the K3 was turning out to be a real P.I.T.A. > > I had two speakers, with somewhat lengthy (though folded up and tied) leads > which extended left and right across the back of the K3, wound in/out of all > of the other wires back there as well, and BOTH leads attached to a single > stereo plug, inserted into the back of the K3. > > When I wanted to move the speakers, or to take them with me for a trip or demo > I had to first unplug the plug from the back of the K3 and then 'snake' at > least one of the speakers up/down in/out of all the other accumulated wires > before I could manage to resurrect both speakers fro in back of the rig. It > got to be a really tiring process... really quick! > > I decided to fix that problem. > > I designed a small PC board on which two (2) stereo phone jacks were mounted, > and then a 7" length of 2-conductor (w/shield) cable from the PC board to a > single stereo plug which plugged into the back of the K3. The jacks on the > PC board were wired such that the RING on each jack was left unconnected and > so only the TIP and SLEEVE were connected to the cable. This way, I can plug > EITHER stereo OR mono plugs into the jacks on the PC board and not have to > worry about shorting anything on the K3 out to ground. Additionally, and this > is the best part for me... now, when I need to remove the speakers, all I have > to do is to unplug each speaker from the PC board and INDIVIDUALLY unwrap any > wires before pulling it to the front of the desk... no longer do I have to > man-handle a big honkin' speaker, trying to unwind it from the rats nest of > wires in back of the rig. I also have a quick and easy to unplug both > speakers > from the back of the K3 if I need to do that as well. > > If you like my idea, visit my web site at: http://www.n0ss.net/index_k3.html > and drop down to the line titled: "External (Dual) Speaker Splitter > for the K3". > > If there's enough interest, I might consider making some PC boards for sale, > otherwise, I'll be happy to make the artwork available for you to make your > own PC boards IF you're interested in doing so. If someone else wants to make > the boards, I'll be happy to give them the artwork, too. > > 73, > > Tom N0SS > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
