ETMegabyte
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I asked a bit ago about whether a dicriminator tap would do what I want it to do, and the answer I got was yes, so I'll not re-ask the question. However...
Because of my non-steady hands, my ability to solder it in is impossible, so I'm having a friend do it for me on Thursday morning. In preparation of that, however, I pulled the scanner apart, located TP4, and using test leads, connected an external speaker to both ground and TP4.
When I did that, the scanner stopped scanning, and the squelch opened up (I heard static through the external speaker). I admit that for the current test, there is no resistor inline (it's just a test lead to an alligator clip to an external speaker), and I'm not sure if that's what the resistor will fix, but I wanted to ask the question anyway.
If I install this discriminator tap to TP4, using a 10k resistor, will the radio stop scanning whenever a speaker is connected to the new jack I put on the back of the scanner? My goal is a constant-level audio output, but the squelch has to remain functional and the scanner still needs to scan... If this is not so, then a scanner that doesn't scan doesn't do me much good
Please help
Thanks
Because of my non-steady hands, my ability to solder it in is impossible, so I'm having a friend do it for me on Thursday morning. In preparation of that, however, I pulled the scanner apart, located TP4, and using test leads, connected an external speaker to both ground and TP4.
When I did that, the scanner stopped scanning, and the squelch opened up (I heard static through the external speaker). I admit that for the current test, there is no resistor inline (it's just a test lead to an alligator clip to an external speaker), and I'm not sure if that's what the resistor will fix, but I wanted to ask the question anyway.
If I install this discriminator tap to TP4, using a 10k resistor, will the radio stop scanning whenever a speaker is connected to the new jack I put on the back of the scanner? My goal is a constant-level audio output, but the squelch has to remain functional and the scanner still needs to scan... If this is not so, then a scanner that doesn't scan doesn't do me much good
Please help
Thanks