Headphone Switch Box?

[jlochey]

Group,

I'm looking for something where I could quickly switch between two radio sources with one pair of headphones.

Does such a thing exist? I'm just tired of pulling it our of one tuner to put it into the other tuner, etc.


Thanks,


John:confused:

[Guy in WNY]

look at MFJ's web site. They have all sorts of cool gadgets for the shack.
Guy in Lockport, NY

[John Wilke K9RZZ]

Group,

I'm looking for something where I could quickly switch between two radio sources with one pair of headphones.

Does such a thing exist? I'm just tired of pulling it our of one tuner to put it into the other tuner, etc.


Thanks,


John:confused:

I had a similar problem. I record my DX on the computer but switching the audio plug from radio to radio drove me nuts, so I built this:

http://members.aol.com/j999w/switchbox.jpg

Lousy pic, but you get the idea.

I switch 6 audio sources into either the stereo amp alone, or the PC then into stereo amp. It's just two 6 position rotary switches with a bunch of RCA jacks in the back of a plastic box. Design and build what you need. If you outgrow it, you can rebuild! You can build one for pennies on the dollar and you have exactly what you want.

I really should rebuild with more inputs to cover all the radio combos, but these are the ones I use the most.

John K9RZZ

[Guy in WNY]

I did the same thing about 20 years ago but with DPDT mini toggle switches, mainly because I had them on hand and they fit the hole in the steel strapping that goes around a chimney and I had some of that as well. So I opened up all my radios and sent the speaker wires out the back to a mini jack, and used mini plugs to go back and forth from the switches to the speakers. I could send the scanners, CB's, SW, and HF rigs audio to any mix of devices! It was pretty silly but kept me busy with the soldering iron for a few days. I could send the CB audio out the scanner, the scanner out the HF rig, and the HF rig out another scanner, or any combo at the flick of a switch. And I had a horn in a box stuffed with cloth and taped up tight for monitoring RTTY and packet so the sound wouldn't be too loud, because you had to get the signal level up for the modem device that plugged in to the old TI-99 4A home computer, with the expansion box. I had a floppy drive - 6-1/4"! and a whooping 48k of memory, the Core-Comp Triple Tech card with clock and voice module, a serial and Centronics interface card, and a Hayes 80 baud modem. What a screamer! AH, the good old days.......I gave it all away to the Goodwill in about 1994; I hope they sold it for at least 20 bucks!
I listed the modem twice on ebay before throwing it out.
Guy in Lockport, NY

[Guy in WNY]

OK I looked it up.
MFJ-640 will connect 2 radios to 1 headphone.
Has switches and a fader control (mixer) as well.
$49.95, page 30 in the 2007 catalog.
Guy in WNY

[John Wilke K9RZZ]

OK I looked it up.
MFJ-640 will connect 2 radios to 1 headphone.
Has switches and a fader control (mixer) as well.
$49.95, page 30 in the 2007 catalog.
Guy in WNY

OUCH!

That must be some 'mighty fine junk'.

http://users.pandora.be/eforum/emoticons4u/happy/972.gif

John K9RZZ

[Guy in WNY]

Yes, that is the popular nick name for them, isn't it? Perhaps a ham fest or ebay will turn up something, or "roll your own" from a couple of parts from radio shack. But that could run into the same bucks when all is done and said, and not be as nice and neat.
Guy in WNY
KC2PMM