[ICOM] Dualing mic jacks issue

John Geiger aa5jg at fidmail.com
Thu Jan 12 23:17:27 EST 2012


I have an Icom 706 original and I recently made up a cable to go between the mic jack and my computer sound card for RTTY. It is working great on RTTY-already bagged 2 new RTTY countries (PJ2 and CP).  I also get the receiver audio off of the mic jack, so I dont have to tie up the speaker on the rig.  I figured it would be easy to plug this cable into the rear mic jack, and leave the microphone plugged into the front jack.

That is where the unusual issue occurs.  With both the RTTY cable and mic jack plugged in, RTTY still works fine, but the microphone will only put out a few watts on SSB-it wiill send a FM and AM carrier ok, though.  This occurs regardless of which jack the soundcard cable is plugged into and which jack the microphone is plugged into.  

Is this typical for the 706?  Any idea why it might be doing this?  Any ways around it other than switching cables as needed?

73s John AA5JG


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