[Kenwood] TS-480 External Speaker Jack

Fri Apr 1 13:25:27 EDT 2022

On 4/1/2022 4:27 AM, Rick Markey, KN3C wrote:
> The external speaker jack on my TS-480 has finally failed.  The p/n is 
> E11-0414-05 which is no longer available from Pacparts or East Coast 
> transistor.  It appears that this jack is used on several Kenwood radios.
>> Just curious if anyone has found an after market replacement?

I wonder whether the one in that TS-120S that was mentioned the other 
day can be adapted (from K6FWT, IIRC)??
Alternatively, you might be able to reroute the speaker output through 
one of the DIN jacks to access speaker output (if it isn't, already). Or 
assuming that the jack that failed is the one on the rear panel, simply 
rewire the front panel headphone jack as a speaker jack. I do that with 
almost all the Kenwood and Yahoo radios that I have, anyway, since the 
reduced headphone output level from the stock front panel jack is 
usually otherwise useless to me.
SteveH, K0XP