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[TenTec] Pegasus line out

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Subject: [TenTec] Pegasus line out
From: Gary Hoffman" <ghoffman@spacetech.com (Gary Hoffman)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:35:45 -0500
ahhh....now I see.

73 de Gary, AA2IZ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Erbaugh" <mark@microenh.com>
To: "Rich McCabe" <rich@1967z28.com>; <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Pegasus line out


> I use a Y adapter that takes a mini stereo jack and splits the two
channels
> to two sepeparate phono jacks. Be careful to check out the adapter as
there
> are also Y adapters that simply split one stereo jack into two stereo
plugs.
> I plug this into my soundcard line input. I then have a cable that has a
> mini stereo plug on one end and phono plug on the other, which is
connected
> between tip and barrel, the ring is not connected. That plugs into the
line
> out of the Pegasus and lets me put the Pegasus audio on whichever channel
> (left or right) I choose. I also have an RX340 and I take the line out
from
> it (from a DB25 connector) and run it through a pot (the level is higher
> than from the Pegasus) and to the other channel input on soundcard. I use
> the Spectrogram software in stereo mode to analyze the input and that lets
> me sync the frequencies on the Pegasus and the RX340. For digital
operation,
> I use the computer volume control balance adjustment to select one channel
> or the other depending on whether I'm using the RX340 or the Pegasus as
the
> receiver.
>
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rich McCabe" <rich@1967z28.com>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 11:20 AM
> Subject: [TenTec] Pegasus line out
>
>
> > This is something I have thought was odd since I received my first
> Pegasus. The standard cable that came with the Pegasus to connect the line
> out ( to the soundcard iin my case) is a stereo mini phono. Without
tearing
> apart the rig, is the jack really stereo and if so what is the purpose?
> >
> > If I connect the cable to something that is mono it bridges the left and
> right together and attenuates the output.
> >
> > I made up a special cable with a stereo plug on one end and only wired
up
> one channel. This seemed to work the best.
> >
> > What started this whole process was I started picking up RF in my
speaker
> and after tearing the shack down and checking everything found that
wiggling
> the line out plug made it go away. So there was some type of bad
connection.
> >
> > I am interested in anyones thoughts on this process? Depending on my
mood,
> I either run a pair of Pegasus using one as a sub receiver or a RX-320 as
a
> the sub. So I always have two audio streams to deal with.
> >
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Rich
> > kd0zv
> >
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