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I? hate the scratchy speaker on this radio but the audio out from the speaker jack seemed to be very low, having to turn it all the way? up in the audio settings to get anything amplifiable. Then tonight I? noticed that the headphone audio was perfectly fine if I unplugged the microphone that came with the radio! What? So then I was about to open up the microphone and disconnect the speaker in it, (it's a speaker-mic), when I noticed a tiny hole next to the wire going in! A headphone jack!

So I plugged my little Anker blue-tooth wired speaker plug into that and Wahoo! Beautiful full-quality sound! So the speaker-mic was taking all the audio from the headphone output, and I'll probably disconnect the wire inside but for now I can listen to this little wonder like it had a large sound-system hooked up to it!

After years of listening to SSB on older radios, it is a pleasure to hear SSB on these new radios, as you can set the bass in the audio settings to your taste. Many people have a pleasant bass component to their voice when in conversational mode on local 40-80 meter nets, so this is a big plus.

That, plus the DSP settings and the radio begins to sound like the people are in the room with you!
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Bob, KL7EAL Los Angeles

Just wondering if you get the same from plugging it into the headphone jack socket included with the radio.

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Yes, that was the mystery in the first place. The microphone that comes with the radio is a speaker mic and so there is audio going to the speaker in it.? It takes the audio from the earphone plug, bypassing that!? So anything you can hear from that plug is so tiny that it's not worth listening to. And the audio in the speaker-mic is so low as well, it's useless in any kind of noisy space.

Why this is not explained in the manual or elsewhere, I don't know. I even? opened up the radio twice? trying to find out what was wrong, but accidentally left the mic off once, and bang! Full audio from the earphone plug, suitable for amplification into a full room-sound quality result!
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Bob, KL7EAL Los Angeles