KX3 - Splitting receive audio between PC and external speaker?

[Mike Parkes]

I am interested in determining the best way to split out the KX3's receive
audio for digital modes to an external speaker, so that if I want, I can
listen to the band while running digital sound card modes. (Maybe I am just
too old school, but my older rigs (like the IC-751a) could do this easily
because they had a separate digital output for rtty and other fsk modes. So
I was able to monitor the band while also decoding digital modes.) I
thought I could use a splitter from the KX3 phones jack, and send one side
to the PC and the other to a speaker (with its own vol control). I have no
idea how that will impact the signal going to the PC though, at the least
it will be less level to the PC. Or perhaps one of the USB sound card
interfaces can do this, as I think some of them have their own audio out?
Ideally I would also like to be able to monitor the transmitted audio
signal too if possible (whatever the signal is that is leaving the PC and
going to the KX3. If anyone has any advice on this I am all ears.
Thanks!
Mike AB7RU
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[Bill Frantz]

I have been successful using headphones with an audio splitting
cable. 3.5mm stereo into the radio and two 3.5mm stereo sockets
for the sound card and the phones.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 12/14/18 at 4:24 PM, [hidden email] (Mike Parkes) wrote:

>I am interested in determining the best way to split out the KX3's receive
>audio for digital modes to an external speaker, so that if I want, I can
>listen to the band while running digital sound card modes. (Maybe I am just
>too old school, but my older rigs (like the IC-751a) could do this easily
>because they had a separate digital output for rtty and other fsk modes. So
>I was able to monitor the band while also decoding digital modes.) I
>thought I could use a splitter from the KX3 phones jack, and send one side
>to the PC and the other to a speaker (with its own vol control). I have no
>idea how that will impact the signal going to the PC though, at the least
>it will be less level to the PC. Or perhaps one of the USB sound card
>interfaces can do this, as I think some of them have their own audio out?
>Ideally I would also like to be able to monitor the transmitted audio
>signal too if possible (whatever the signal is that is leaving the PC and
>going to the KX3. If anyone has any advice on this I am all ears.
>Thanks!
>Mike AB7RU

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[Nicklas Johnson]

For doing this, what I do is go into the control panel for the audio input
device in Windows and check "Listen to this device", and then set the
output for listening to the PC's speakers.  Then if you want to hear your
transmitted signal, you can also turn on the MON function of the KX3.

They hid this control panel pretty well in later versions of Windows 10,
but you can access it quickly by running mmsys.cpl .

   Nick

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 at 16:25, Mike Parkes <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I am interested in determining the best way to split out the KX3's receive
> audio for digital modes to an external speaker, so that if I want, I can
> listen to the band while running digital sound card modes. (Maybe I am just
> too old school, but my older rigs (like the IC-751a) could do this easily
> because they had a separate digital output for rtty and other fsk modes. So
> I was able to monitor the band while also decoding digital modes.) I
> thought I could use a splitter from the KX3 phones jack, and send one side
> to the PC and the other to a speaker (with its own vol control). I have no
> idea how that will impact the signal going to the PC though, at the least
> it will be less level to the PC. Or perhaps one of the USB sound card
> interfaces can do this, as I think some of them have their own audio out?
> Ideally I would also like to be able to monitor the transmitted audio
> signal too if possible (whatever the signal is that is leaving the PC and
> going to the KX3. If anyone has any advice on this I am all ears.
> Thanks!
> Mike AB7RU
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