Kent,
I think you are making your life mor complicated than it has to be
before you even gotten your feet wet.
You have several options, but none of them will be fun.
Your headset will probably have a 1/8 audio plug that will need an
adapter to connect to the 8 pin mic connector on the front of the rig.
You can buy a microphone switch box to allow 2 mics to connect to a
single radio. You could connect the headset adapter and the hand mic
to this box and switch to the hand mic when you use the buttons, then
switch back to the head set afterwards.
You could build yourself a box with buttons on it to emulate the pf
keys and accept any mic you wish.
You could have someone modify the hand mic, break out the audio line and
put in a jack to plug in your headset mic. Your keys would work and
you would have your headset mic, but you will have to develop a ptt
scheme: either vox, or a foot or hand switch.
There is software on the Kenwood site that *I think* would allow you
to keep the hand mic plugged into the radio and run the headset mic to
the pc and send audio to the computer. I think this software is
designed to allow use of the pc's mic and speakers when controlling
the radio remotely. I honestly don't know that much about it, but
there may be something there worth looking into.
There may be some easier way to do this, but it's late and I'm drawing a
blank.
You could get a desk mic with pf keys, and just not use the mic part of
the headset Or afix the hand mic to a boom and key with a foot switch
to keep your hands free. (This wouldn't be my first choice, but it
could work in a pinch).
.
73, Steve KW3A
On 8/17/2013 10:17 PM, Kent Plemmons wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> I did a poor job of providing the details.
> I am interested in using a headset (hs) with a built in mic. I also need to
> use the ts-590 hand mic as it has the 4 programmable function keys.
> How would this work?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Kent
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Steve Forst
> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 9:40 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: TS-590 headphones/hand mike functions
>
> I might be missing something here. The 590 has a 8 pin round jack for the
> mic to connect to. There is also a 1/4 inch jack for the headphones, and
> never the twain will meet. What is the hp jack you refer to?
>
> 73, Steve KW3A
>
> On 8/17/2013 7:51 PM, Kent Plemmons wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
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>> I have a question regarding the TS-590 and using headphones and the
>> 590 hand mic that has the 4 programmable function keys.
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>> I want to use a set of headphones with a ts-590. If the headphone
>> jack fits into the hp jack, unless there is an adapter of some sort
>> how could you have access to the 4 pf keys on the 590 mic as the hand
>> mic would need to plug into the mic jack that the headphones are using?
>>
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>>
>> How do you guys do this?
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>>
>> Thank you all,
>>
>>
>>
>> Kent Plemmons
>>
>> North of Waynesville NC
>>
>> Skype: kent.plemmons
>>
>> KK4FFF
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