Most of the monitor speakers I have seen are very tiny, and do not 
play very loud.

All I had to do to make them play with what little volume they did 
have was to run a stereo 3.5 mm cable between the output of the sound 
card and the input jack on the monitor.

I only did it once just to see if those speakers would work. They did, 
and they sounded about like an old 2 transistor AM radio.

My suggestion, try a head set instead.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tom behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 8:50 PM
Subject: OffTopic: trying to get a PC to play audio through monitor 
speakers


Hi, everyone.

I am still trying various things to deal with my RFI problem on 20 
meters
when using the Alpha Delta DXCC antenna.

I am finding that whenever I transmit on 20, a cheap set of computer
speakers I have becomes extremely  susseptible to RFI, and I am 
wondering if
using those speakers is creating a ground loop that may be part of my
overall RFI problem.

As a way to find out if this is true, I would like to see what happens 
if I
play the audio on the PC through the speakers in a computer monitor 
that I
have.  The monitor is on, but I can't seem to get the computer to play 
audio
through the monitor speakers.  I have gone to the control panel, and 
have
selected the speaker option called "monitor speakers", but that 
doesn't
appear to have done me any good.

Is there something else I need to activate in the control panel to 
make the
monitor speakers work?

There appears to be an extra plug on the monitor for a speaker 
connection,
but when I plug it into the jack on the PC  where the speaker plug 
would
normally go, again, nothing happens.

This particular PC has Windows XP, and Jaws 10 on it.

The monitor is a fairly new flat screen monitor, and it does have 
speakers
on the front.  The speakers are small, and certainly won't deliver 
great
sound, but this will be my ham radio computer, so the overall sound 
quality
will not be a big issue.

Since this post is off topic, I encourage anyone to respond off list. 
My
private e-mail address is:

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73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ


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