[TenTec] Head-Phone volume in Orion2

Dr. Gerald N. Johnson geraldj at weather.net
Sun Aug 30 11:59:14 PDT 2009


On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 11:19 -0700, Jim Brown K9YC wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:05:41 -0600, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson wrote:
> 
> > So there's one other option, adding an outboard headset power amp.
> 
> This is crazy unless the user has very severe hearing loss. There is 
> no good reason the existing output stage shouldn't work just fine 
> with enough GAIN in the audio chain and headphones of reasonable 
> sensitivity.  
> 
> 73,
> 
> Jim K9YC
> 
> 
True. But in the absence of a firmware fix, a $30 amplifier can solve
the problem in a couple days.

73, Jerry, K0CQ



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