[Elecraft] N1MM and SSB and audio

[vze3v8dt at verizon.net]

Hi Chris,

I did this last year as I had a terrible head cold so wanted to try to save my voice & energy a bit.  I use a Heil ProSet Plus headset and the interface I used was one of the West Mountain Radio RigBlaster interfaces.  The interface goes between the rig, headset and computer.  

On the other hand I've also tried using a small digital voice recorder with a Y-adapter in the past.  I didn't like the way it worked as I had it hooked up because of a couple of things.  I seem to have had the volume turned all the way up on the DVR audio output.  Was I getting distortion at such a high level?  Why did it need to be up at such a high level?  I had an audio to high-impedance transformer (8:1000) inline as well but that didn't seem to matter.  I also heard the audio coming out of the microphone.  That can't be good!

So, use a RigBlaster or equivalent interface, or design your own, and you'll be much better off than the Y-adapter to jack in the audio in parallel.

Mark, NK8Q

>From: Chris Kantarjiev <cak at dimebank.com>
>Date: 2007/11/08 Thu PM 02:07:54 CST
>To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [Elecraft] N1MM and SSB and audio

>I'm going to try to operate SSB for the first time (ever!) for SS SSB.
>I'm trying to puzzle out the connections between computer, headset and
>K2 to make my life as easy as possible while using N1MM logging.
>
>(I've got this SSB card, I might as well learn to use it.)
>
>It appears that the N1MM logger will do automagic playback of canned 
>audio from my computer. That obviously requires suitable cabling. I'm
>making up an adapter for my headset to the 8-pin mic input -
>can I "y" in a cable to the audio output of my laptop? Will
>that be at too high a level if I just connect it to mic-in?
>
>VY 73 de chris K6DBG
>
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