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

[wb5hak]

Radio Shack used to call this adapter an attenuator.  It worked well on the
old mic inputs to tape recorders.  Not sure if they still have them, but
should be "findable".  They were red in color so you could recognize them
quickly.
73,
Don, WB5HAK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Pearce KN4AQ" <kn4aq@ipass.net>
To: <icom@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 5:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Icom] Sony VAIO laptop receive audio & using headphones
simultaneously


>
> 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?
>
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