[Heathkit] Dumb speaker question

[Edward B Richards]

Try using the speaker (8 ohm) jack instead of the phones jack. The phones
jack is high Z and low level.

Ed   K6UUZ

On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:25:55 -0600 "Wayne Harrah"
<pilotguy1050 at yahoo.com> writes:
> Hello all.
>  
> This is going to be laughably dumb.  I apologize for that.  I just
> purchased an SB-301 receiver and am waiting for the arrival of a 
> HW-101
> also.  The SB-301 got here, but lacking any speaker, I plugged in 
> an
> external speaker I had laying around into the phones jack.
>  
> Audio was extremely nasal (thin) and high-pitched. no depth or lows 
> at
> all.  When I turned up the volume, it got distorted and not all 
> that
> loud.  Is there something I need to know about the audio outputs on
> these old rigs?
>  
> Thank you.  Sorry for the first-grade questions.
>  
> Wayne, ke0ms
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