[Boatanchors] Speaker Switching

brianclarke01 at optusnet.com.au brianclarke01 at optusnet.com.au
Mon Aug 7 18:20:09 EDT 2006


Sorry, no, Gary.

That's why I suggested a 25 Ohm rheostat. With the speaker on the wiper, 
you have an automatic T-attenuator for signal going from one radio to the other.

73 de Brian, VK2GCE.



> Gary Schafer <garyschafer at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> It is generally a bad idea to allow one radio to feed audio to another's
> output. With the pot connected to two radios and one speaker some of the
> audio from one will couple into the other. The voltages from both
> transformers can add in the transformer and cause it to arc. 
> 
> 73
> Gary  K4FMX


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