K3 Feature Request

[Brian Jones-13]

Just preparing a station for the Centenary of Boy Scouts in a week or
two's time and remembered a real annoyance. The Kenwood HF rigs we use
(you don't think I'm gonna let the young 'uns play with my K2 do you!)
do not have any easy facility to allow both headphone and speaker
simultaneously. Absolutely essential to allow the operator to
accurately copy the other station whilst still allowing the 'audience'
to hear the QSO.

Be a really nice touch in the K3 if I can choose whether or not
headphone insertion mutes the internal (or external) speaker.

Brian G0UKB
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[list1]

Hi Brian,
I have had a lot of comments from Boy Scout leaders about this device.  I
haven't had time recently to pursue it further.  We have even considered
using two for 8 outputs.
http://www.pituch.net/p/Steve's%20Page/Radio/Audio%20Breakout%20Box/Audio%20Breakout%20Box.htm
or drill down from www.pituch.net

Regards,
Steve, W2MY

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[Paul-285]

>Hi Brian,
>I have had a lot of comments from Boy Scout leaders about this
>device.  I haven't had time recently to pursue it further.  We have
>even considered using two for 8 outputs.
>http://www.pituch.net/p/Steve's%20Page/Radio/Audio%20Breakout%20Box/Audio%20Breakout%20Box.htm 
>
>or drill down from www.pituch.net
>
>Regards,
>Steve, W2MY

Or you can just buy an 8 headphone amp like this one for $140:
http://www.bswusa.com/proditem.asp?item=HA8000

Or buy a pair of these $20-each headphone amps that drive 4 headphones each.
Total would be $40 for 8 headphone amps:
http://www.bswusa.com/proditem.asp?item=HA400

We use these at Field Day and they work great.








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[Ed Muns, W0YK]

> Be a really nice touch in the K3 if I can choose whether or
> not headphone insertion mutes the internal (or external) speaker.

This was discussed at length among the Field Testers a week or so back.  As
you suggest, the capability will probably be available via a menu setting
since many people do not want both active at the same time, most of the
time.  If the menu entry doesn't make the firmware at initial shipments, it
will likely be added with enough customer interest.  That's the great thing
about easily downloadable firmware on the K3.  Now, the engineers have
another problem ... how to prioritize and implement all the requests!  Trust
me, there are a LOT of "requests" in the queue right now from the Field Test
team.  If this feature shows up in a Beta release prior to FCS, I'll try to
remember to announce it here.

73,
Ed - W0YK

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[Ian Maude]

J. Edward (Ed) Muns wrote:
>> Be a really nice touch in the K3 if I can choose whether or
>> not headphone insertion mutes the internal (or external) speaker.
>>    
OOH, yes please, this would be great :-)

Ian
--
Ian J Maude G0VGS
SysOp GB7MBC DX Cluster
Member of RSGB, ARRL, GQRP
K2 #4044 | K3 #?

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[Mike Markowski]

Brian,

Brian Jones wrote:
> Just preparing a station for the Centenary of Boy Scouts in a week or
> two's time and remembered a real annoyance. The Kenwood HF rigs we use
> (you don't think I'm gonna let the young 'uns play with my K2 do you!)

:-)  I know what you mean.  I demo'd my k2 to Boy Scouts but had been
apprehensive especially for that reason, but also worried that the smaller
scouts wouldn't see what was going on if everyone crowded around the radio.  So
I used software control of the K2 and amplified the audio output, and the demo
went over well.  Of course, I gave a talk about ham radio and demonstrated
examples of different modes, which I'll admit is very different from letting
anyone sit there and use the rig.  Software isn't always a perfect solution but
might be for occasions like this.  A snapshot of the projected image when I was
getting things set up is at

http://udel.edu/~mm/ham/elecraft/k2demo.png

73,
Mike ab3ap
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[Bjorn]

> Be a really nice touch in the K3 if I can choose whether or not
> headphone insertion mutes the internal (or external) speaker.

This is functionality that is useful to me! If it is menu selectable its
even better.

73 de Björn /SM0MDG




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