[AMRadio] Speaker

[zuu6k at juno.com]

Herb;

I get my external speakers at thrift stores, i.e. Salvation Army,
Goodwill industries, St Joseph's, etc. You can get a wide variety of
sizes from a single speaker in a bookcase enclosure to console speakers
with a woofer, mid-range and tweeter in a 30" high enclosure. Prices
range from $1.50 each to $25 for a pair. Re impedance: most are 8 ohm
which will work ok on a 4 ohm radio, or if you want a perfect match,
parallel 2 each 8 ohm speakers to give you 4 ohms. Watch the phasing. I
bought one pair of bookshelf speakers that had a 4" low range and a 4"
high range in the same enclosure. I threw away the 2 high range ones and
put both low range in the same enclosure with a transformer and switch.
Now I can select 4, 8, or 500 ohms. I use it as a test speaker for
working on boat anchors. Good luck.

73, Ed K6UUZ


On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:11:33 -0400 "Herb Raemsch" <hwr79 at chilitech.net>
writes:
>     Was wandering if I could get afew suggestions on an External 
> Speaker?Am trying to get a station up and running useing a Heath 
> DX-60B and Hammarlund HQ-110A. The only Hammarlund speaker I could 
> find was worth more I guess then I payed for the receiver. Anyways 
> was wandering what some of you guys are useing that are not useing 
> matching speakers for there receivers. Also the Hammarlund calls for 
> 4 ohm speaker and was wandering if the audio fidelty would still be 
> OK useing an 8 ohm speaker of some sort?
>                                                            73 
> Thanks
>                                                            Herb 
> WA3HGT
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