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Re: [TenTec] Ear Phone Audio

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ear Phone Audio
From: Barry N1EU <barry.n1eu@gmail.com>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:58:19 -0400
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Apologies, I think I mis-read it.  I got it, it's broken.

sorry, Barry N1EU

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Barry N1EU <barry.n1eu@gmail.com> wrote:

> No, this is what he said: "I have a Orion 1 that I purchased in 2004. It
> has worked great and still does, but I have noticed my receive audio is
> low and I have to turn the volume up when I plug in my ear phones."
>
> Got it?
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Gary Follett <dukeshifi@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> This would be the case had he not reported that this once worked properly
>> and then failed. Changing resistor values is probably not going to correct
>> for a component failure.
>>
>> There is, I believe, a headphone driver chip that can be damaged by
>> plugging in a mono connector into the phone jack. I would look here.
>>
>> I have a spare front panel board that has this circuit so, if needed, a
>> replacement is available.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> > On Aug 24, 2016, at 4:30 AM, Barry N1EU <barry.n1eu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > There are some resistors in series with the headphone jack and you can
>> try
>> > lowering their values.  I did that back when I owned a 565 and it
>> helped.
>> >
>> > 73, Barry N1EU
>> >
>> >> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Arthur Lewis <wa8vsj@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> *I have a Orion 1 that I purchased in 2004. It has worked great and
>> still
>> >> does, but I have noticed my receive audio is low and I have to turn the
>> >> volume up when I plug in my ear phones. The phones work well on my
>> other
>> >> rigs. They are Sennheiser  HD280 pro. They have always worked well on
>> the
>> >> Orion until last couple of days. In CW when I use the phones, I have to
>> >> turn the volume up, the CW sidetone gets extremely loud in the phones.
>> The
>> >> phone audio is also low on SSB*
>> >>
>> >> *The speaker audio is fine.  I like using the phones to separate the
>> >> receivers and it makes listening much easier.*
>> >>
>> >> *Anyone ever have this problem.*
>> >>
>> >> *Art WA8VSJ*
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