[Icom] Sony VAIO laptop receive audio & using headphones simultaneously

[Gary Pearce KN4AQ]

I use an in-line pad to drop the headphone audio down to microphone level 
to feed my laptop (also a Sony Vaio).  The pad looks like an adapter, but 
it's 1/8" mono in and out, and drops the level about 40 dB.  I think I got 
it at Radio Shack.

It works well feeding headphone audio from my Icom 756 (Original) to my 
laptop to copy PSK-31.  I can keep the AF out of the radio at a fairly 
normal range, and the audio input settings on the laptop in the normal range.

73,
Gary KN4AQ


At 11:54 PM 8/15/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I have a 756 pro II and a Sony VAIO Z505 laptop. The laptop has only a
>microphone in - not a line in. I have two questions if you all don't mind. :)
>
>1) I've run a standard headphone cable from the rear "external speaker"
>jack to my laptop's "microphone input" jack. This seems to work properly as
>long as I keep the AF volume very very low or turn the RF gain down (which
>does wierd things to the analog meter). Does anyone know how to turn the
>microphone input into a line input on the Sony VAIO laptop?