[Elecraft] CW Sidetone

[Arthur Nienhouse]

I have my menu setting for both internal speaker and headphones, I have 
a small wire stereo plug
with a right angle plugged in all the time the small stereo wire lead 
goes back under the radio
and connects to a cable that comes out under the operating table where I 
remove and
plug in my head phones this saves the ware and tear of the jack on the 
K3 and keeps the
clutter in front of the radio down to nothing I do the same with the mic 
input folding the
cable under the radio and out the back.

I find the difference to my head phones a small annoyance as I need to 
adjust for loudness
turn it down each time I put on the head phones. My headphones are the 
Snenheiser HD 280 pro
compared to the internal speaker the headphones have much more gain.

Part of this annoyance is the fact the room noise is less with the head 
phones on the moni needs
to be up a lot for internal speaker usage for me.Tracking the side tone 
is not a thing I would want
  I need to get some external speakers going, I  just don't have the 
room for them so I use the
internal speaker.

I still have the Alpha Delta speaker with the amp in it which was what I 
used for ten years or
more on my Yaesu hf radios now the K3 sits in its place on top of my 
FT2000 DMU
U-tuning kit radio which has not been used but 3 times to transmit since 
the born on date of
June 13 09 of my K3 guess the solution is to sell the Yaesu to make 
room  take a bath on cost and
put the Alpha Delta speaker back in use that would fix the moni loudness 
issue.

For the reasons posted running with the AGC off I would not want the 
function to change over
either.

Regards
Art
ka9zap