Question: Has anyone had Becker do the aux-port mod to their 1492? If so, would you be willing to take a picture where they soldered the wire in the unit?
Background:
I'm trying to get an aux port added to my 1492 in a DIY fashion; the easiest way to do this would be to simply add a couple wires to the tape-deck output, however, this requires you to have a tape in the deck. The trickier way is to add a switched 3.5mm jack into the fm output. This means that you can play the normal radio, or if you plug into the 3.5mm jack, the fm output to the speakers is switched over to the source from the 3.5mm (e.g. mp3 player); when you remove the aux source, the radio begins to play again. Pretty nifty.
My bro and I took apart the unitand hooked up an oscilloscope with the radio powered on. We found several outputs, however, can't find where the source is to break it and put the jack in the middle. I *think* this is how Becker does it, but I'm not sure. I contacted them once before for help, but they weren't interested in hearing anything about this. Schematics would be nice, but, eh, the oscilloscope is a cool doohickey.
I do realize there are many other, less invasive, quicker, better solutions, but this has been on my mind for over a year and now it's simply a thing I want to do
Thanks for your time!
Jano
Background:
I'm trying to get an aux port added to my 1492 in a DIY fashion; the easiest way to do this would be to simply add a couple wires to the tape-deck output, however, this requires you to have a tape in the deck. The trickier way is to add a switched 3.5mm jack into the fm output. This means that you can play the normal radio, or if you plug into the 3.5mm jack, the fm output to the speakers is switched over to the source from the 3.5mm (e.g. mp3 player); when you remove the aux source, the radio begins to play again. Pretty nifty.
My bro and I took apart the unitand hooked up an oscilloscope with the radio powered on. We found several outputs, however, can't find where the source is to break it and put the jack in the middle. I *think* this is how Becker does it, but I'm not sure. I contacted them once before for help, but they weren't interested in hearing anything about this. Schematics would be nice, but, eh, the oscilloscope is a cool doohickey.
I do realize there are many other, less invasive, quicker, better solutions, but this has been on my mind for over a year and now it's simply a thing I want to do

Thanks for your time!
Jano
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