[Elecraft] 3rd Party SSB Monitor?

[Karl Larsen]

Darwin, Keith wrote:
> There's the good old fashioned way of doing it.  Use a separate receiver.  Maybe a KX-1?
>
> My shack is evolving (no Darwin jokes, please :-) at the moment.  I'm planning on running the output of my rigs (currently 3) into a mixing board that will feed a single audio filter which will feed my headphones.
    This should be easy to build with a single audio integrated circuit. 
You will want a pot on both inputs so you can balace the audio. Why the 
audio filter? They are not very good.
>   This way, I can listen to either rig (or both at the same time) and I don't have to be switching things back & forth.  The mixer will also serve as the mic preamp which feeds audio through the outboard EQ and outboard compressor prior to going into the SSB rig.
    This might be tricky. I find little written about compression and it 
is perhaps simple I don't know. My ATS-3 rig has a AGC integrated chip 
in the receiver audio. You might use this as a compressor for 
transmitting. But again just an audio amp with lots of output adjustment 
should work fine.
>   I'll be able to monitor the mic signal before it goes into the rig as well as hearing it through the rig's MON circuit.
>
>   
    Yes you can build that in with ease.

> Fun!
>
> - Keith KD1E -
> - K2 5411 -
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Is there a 3rd party external "box" that might work?  Not that I work SSB very often, but I consider audio monitor to be ESSENTIAL!  
>
> -Chris KL9A
>   

73 Karl K5DI