May 14th 04, 08:19 PM
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(GO BEARCATS) wrote in message ...
Here is my repost in case it didn't go through, at the bottom I will seperate
I went to the Shack looking for the same thing today (er...yesterday Wed.) and
I got (against my better judgement)a cat#274-387 it says Stereo to Mono Audio
Adapter *accepts 1/8"stereo phone plug/fits phono jack. I plugged the end of
my sloper, th 1/8" adapter into it ( the other end 'slid over' the RCA-not
into-like it should have IMO.
Bottom line: I couldn't hear hardly anything. I unplugged my antenna from it
and heard more from the adapter I just bought slid over the rca then before
with the antenna plugged into it.
Can some nice soul tell me exactly what to get from the Shack, maybe a cat#
would be great. Just looking at the RCA that was installed, it looks like (I've
never had an RCA jack) something physically goes 'into it.' Justice at
RadioLabs said how much better that jack would be, that I'd like to try it out,
but I went back to the tried and true 'sleeve' into the original exter.antenna
jack and everything was fine.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Er, if you plug a mono phone plug into a stereo jack, it shorts one
of the contacts (the ring) to ground. (Most stero headphone outputs
need to have resistors in series to prevent this).
Tou're using a mono to stereo adapter, it splits the tip contact on
its plug into a tip and a ring contact in the socket. And then, using
the old plug, you're shorting everything.
Use a stero plug with the ring terminal not connected to anything on
your antenna.
Mark Zenier
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