Sasquatch
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I was up flying yesterday in a busy flightseeing area, Knik Glacier, and had a friend in a Supercub with dual comms. It seemed like it would be really nice to monitor a second station. We were talking on a second frequency but there is a CTAF for the area. It would be nice to be able to listen to both.
Has anyone set up a system like this or have suggestions. I have an old A4, I was thinking of maybe just running with the rubber antenna and just plugging the audio into my headset or intercom. I wouldn't necessarily need to transmit on the second radio.
Also I had a battery go dead in my intercom. My sidetone disappeared or was garbled. I thought the Sigtronics was a fail safe so you could still talk through it, but that wasn't the case, it seemed I could not transmit with headset either in Xmit plug or Mike nearby, negative response from radio checks with other planes, have ICOM doggle with PTT and an A6. When I unplugged from the intercom and directly to the ICOM adapter everything worked fine again. Maybe it's an older model with out the fail safe feature.
Thanks for any thoughts
Has anyone set up a system like this or have suggestions. I have an old A4, I was thinking of maybe just running with the rubber antenna and just plugging the audio into my headset or intercom. I wouldn't necessarily need to transmit on the second radio.
Also I had a battery go dead in my intercom. My sidetone disappeared or was garbled. I thought the Sigtronics was a fail safe so you could still talk through it, but that wasn't the case, it seemed I could not transmit with headset either in Xmit plug or Mike nearby, negative response from radio checks with other planes, have ICOM doggle with PTT and an A6. When I unplugged from the intercom and directly to the ICOM adapter everything worked fine again. Maybe it's an older model with out the fail safe feature.
Thanks for any thoughts
