Can I put an external speaker on a TK-760?

[ARTVANDALAY]

Hello, I have a TK-760 operating as a base station for dispatch. What I am wondering is if I can plug an external speaker into it, and some how get the radio's speaker to work as well as the external aux speaker. What I am trying to do is allow the shop (below the dispatch office) to listen to radio traffic from the base station, without installing another radio. Thanks in advance.

[ramal121]

An external speaker for a TK-760 will have a 3.5mm phone plug that goes into the jack at the back of the radio, but doing so will switch off the internal speaker.

I have not done a 760, but a TK-780 can have both speakers operate by taking a cover off and adding a solder jumper to the board.

[cabletech]

I take it that you do not have any manuals for this radio. There is also a 15 pin accy connecter that you can use to connect a external speaker to that will let you do what you want to do.

If you use the 3.5mm plug in, you will disable the internal speaker. Follow this link and print the manual and it will show you the accy connecter.

http://www.fracassi.net/iw2ntf/manua...e%20manual.pdf

[ramal121]

Originally Posted by cabletech

I take it that you do not have any manuals for this radio. There is also a 15 pin accy connecter that you can use to connect a external speaker to that will let you do what you want to do.

If you use the 3.5mm plug in, you will disable the internal speaker. Follow this link and print the manual and it will show you the accy connecter.

http://www.fracassi.net/iw2ntf/manua...e%20manual.pdf

The 15 pin accessory connector is an option to the radio. It is called a KCT-19. If installed "by the book" it will also disable the internal speaker, but there is a hack method that will keep both speakers working also.

[ARTVANDALAY]

I am not very good at working on radios, is this something the local Kenwood dealer would be willing to set up for me? Can I get a speaker with it's own volume control?