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    From Brian DeLuca@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 18 14:14:27 2021
    I want to connect an external speaker to my ICOM 718. I purchased a 1/8" (3.5mm) Mono Male to stripped end cable. the cable does not go all the way into the jack? The manual says this is the jack to purchase: external speaker connector 2-
    conductor 3.5 (d) mm (1⁄8ʺ) /8Ω. Am I doing something very basically wrong?

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  • From Brian DeLuca@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 18 14:37:21 2021
    disregard my speaker jack question. I figured out the operator. Brian

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  • From George Cornelius@21:1/5 to Brian DeLuca on Fri Jul 23 23:46:56 2021
    In article <4c42f958-7000-41a4-908b-e750bd4b380en@googlegroups.com>, Brian DeLuca <deluca.brian@gmail.com> writes:
    I want to connect an external speaker to my ICOM 718. I purchased a 1/8"=
    (3.5mm) Mono Male to stripped end cable. the cable does not go all the w= ay into the jack? The manual says this is the jack to purchase: externa= l speaker connector 2-conductor 3.5 (d) mm (1=E2=81=848=CA=BA) /8=CE=A9. A= m I doing something very basically wrong?

    Well, I was about to tell you how to solder a cable into a 3.5 mm mono plug, but (a) looks like you have solved your own problem and (b) looks like what
    you bought was a bit of speaker wire already terminated at one end with a
    mono plug.

    So I am left to surmise that either (a) somehow the male connector did not
    mate with the opening into which you were attempting to insert it or (b)
    you were imagining something completely different such as inserting the unterminated end into the jack, thinking the idea was to connect to a
    speaker that happened to also have a 3.5 mm jack. The first I won't
    address because if it's not an obvious error you might have to send the
    thing back. The second I won't address because it's easy to eventually
    realize that you'll want to use the unterminated end to attach to the
    speaker, something that might involve soldering, or perhaps just attaching
    the bare ends to screws or to some form of quick disconnect hardware at
    the speaker case.

    Either way it should eventually be obvious how it all works, although to someone with little electronics experience, soldering, or even stripping
    wire to match the termination being used, might at first appear to be
    a daunting problem.

    George

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  • From George Cornelius@21:1/5 to George Cornelius on Sat Jul 24 00:19:27 2021
    In article <wUUsRT9gtdOM@eisner>, cornelius@eisner.decus.org (George Cornelius) writes:
    In article <4c42f958-7000-41a4-908b-e750bd4b380en@googlegroups.com>, Brian DeLuca <deluca.brian@gmail.com> writes:
    I want to connect an external speaker to my ICOM 718. I purchased a 1/8"= >> (3.5mm) Mono Male to stripped end cable. the cable does not go all the w= >> ay into the jack? The manual says this is the jack to purchase: externa= >> l speaker connector 2-conductor 3.5 (d) mm (1=E2=81=848=CA=BA) /8=CE=A9. A= >> m I doing something very basically wrong?

    or (b)
    you were imagining something completely different such as inserting the unterminated end into the jack, thinking the idea was to connect to a
    speaker that happened to also have a 3.5 mm jack

    Considering the site I am posting from I do have to mention that item (b)
    is a clear case of:

    IE.NFW -69. Path lost to partner. [1]

    George

    [1] RSX-11M MiniReference, Digital Equipment Corporation, ~ 1981

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  • From fred k. =?UTF-8?B?ZW5nZWxzwq4=?=@21:1/5 to Brian DeLuca on Sat Jul 24 09:41:26 2021
    On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 14:14:27 -0700 (PDT)
    Brian DeLuca <deluca.brian@gmail.com> wrote:

    I want to connect an external speaker to my ICOM 718. I purchased
    a 1/8" (3.5mm) Mono Male to stripped end cable. the cable does not
    go all the way into the jack? The manual says this is the jack to purchase: external speaker connector 2-conductor 3.5 (d) mm (1⁄8ʺ)
    /8Ω. Am I doing something very basically wrong?

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