[Elecraft] Simultaneous audio out & digital out for K2 -- safe?

[John Huffman]

I use a "Y" cable plugged into the headphone jack.  Worth a try.

73 de NA8M
John

> Both are these are very easy with that setup because I get 
> audio out of the speaker *and* audio into the sound card at the same time.
> 
> The K2 cuts off the speaker when I insert the cable into the ext speaker 
> jack, which makes it almost impossible to do what I describe above.  It 
> is pretty obvious how to jumper the ext speaker jack to prevent this, 
> but I don't know if I would be running any risks by doing so.  Do I need 
> additional isolation circuitry?  Is the audio power out sufficient to 
> drive both speaker and sound card?  Has anyone else done this?
>