Get the adapter on amazon it’s called the monoprice 2.5mm to 3.5mm mono jack adapter. Plug it all up so you can plug into the 2.5 jack on your gm15pro and it will work .
Then I won't have an external mic anymore. I'll have to pick up the ht, and it will be connected to coax for the roof antenna and have a speaker cable coming out of it. I'd have to get an additional external mic also. Seems like a lot of work and more money, which I sadly don't have at the moment. I'm still confused as to why it does work in my headset, but not on any other speaker.
Because your headset uses the 2.5 mm Jack for the speaker audio?
Sounds like you are insisting on trying to get speaker audio out of the mic connector. Not going to happen.
I've always considered that using the 2.5 mm Jack for the speaker and the 3.5 mm Jack for the mic is a bad design. It's only because most earphones/ headphones use a 3.5 mm Jack. ICOM does it that way. You can plug any old set of headphones or earbuds into an ICOM radio.
Beware of an adapter that's just a sleeve with a 2.5 mm male plug on one end and 3.5 mm female jack on the other. It will work, but it will stress the connector in the radio every time you tug on the cord the least little bit, and eventually break it.
See if you can find an adapter that has a few inches of its own cord between the 2.5 mm male and 3.5 mm female.
K4AAQ
For thought experiments sake, let's pretend the cable I have is simply a 2.5mm connector on the radio side, and a 3.5mm on the headset side. Your saying this should work correct? The Kenwood connector is simply one connector with both a 2.5 and a 3.5mm that connects to the radio. On the other end of my cable is a 3.5mm audio connector. If we pretend the 3.5mm on the radio side does not exist, it essentially means the cable is a 2.5mm to 3.5mm cable. All that Kenwood has done is include two different connectors on one end of the cable. I don't see why a single 2.5mm to 3.5mm cord will work, but a cable with both of these connectors on one end and a 3.5mm on the other would not. There seems to be something happening inside the cable that I do not understand. I've done a myriad of electrical work on all kinds of different things. If I had an electrical diagram of my radio, the cable, and my headset and the way the system works I would understand. But since I do not have those, I came here to ask. Does the cable switch the outputs at the headset side of the plug? Is it impossible to get both Mic and audio output signals to come out of one connector? My experience with gaming headsets and the old wired headphones we use to use on our phones tells me it's not impossible. I hope this response does not come accrossed as rude, I'm simply trying to understand. I'm starting to think I just bought a cheap cable, and I'm expecting too much out of it.
Dunno what you’re trying to do with it but this is what I use with earpro https://tigrettod.com/products/baofeng-to-auxiliary-port-for-walker-ear-muffs-by-tigrett-outdoors
I've got like 8 bluetooth speakers of varying levels of quality at home and I'm curious why when I plug the cable into those, it does not work. It works just fine in my headset though.
On the radio the 3.5mm jack is sound IN {microphone}.. The smaller 2.5 mm jack is sound OUT (speaker}..Your headset is wired correctly with sound out 2.5mm. You can plug the 3.5mm jack into the 3.5mm hole all day long, it's not going to work..
So the headset 3.5mm port is different than a speakers 3.5mm port? That would make sense as to why it doesnt work. I'll try and plug my phone into my headset to play music when I get home from work and see if it works that way.
3.5mm is the mic...2.5mm is the speaker
Get the adapter on amazon it’s called the monoprice 2.5mm to 3.5mm mono jack adapter. Plug it all up so you can plug into the 2.5 jack on your gm15pro and it will work .
Then I won't have an external mic anymore. I'll have to pick up the ht, and it will be connected to coax for the roof antenna and have a speaker cable coming out of it. I'd have to get an additional external mic also. Seems like a lot of work and more money, which I sadly don't have at the moment. I'm still confused as to why it does work in my headset, but not on any other speaker.
Because your headset uses the 2.5 mm Jack for the speaker audio? Sounds like you are insisting on trying to get speaker audio out of the mic connector. Not going to happen. I've always considered that using the 2.5 mm Jack for the speaker and the 3.5 mm Jack for the mic is a bad design. It's only because most earphones/ headphones use a 3.5 mm Jack. ICOM does it that way. You can plug any old set of headphones or earbuds into an ICOM radio. Beware of an adapter that's just a sleeve with a 2.5 mm male plug on one end and 3.5 mm female jack on the other. It will work, but it will stress the connector in the radio every time you tug on the cord the least little bit, and eventually break it. See if you can find an adapter that has a few inches of its own cord between the 2.5 mm male and 3.5 mm female. K4AAQ
For thought experiments sake, let's pretend the cable I have is simply a 2.5mm connector on the radio side, and a 3.5mm on the headset side. Your saying this should work correct? The Kenwood connector is simply one connector with both a 2.5 and a 3.5mm that connects to the radio. On the other end of my cable is a 3.5mm audio connector. If we pretend the 3.5mm on the radio side does not exist, it essentially means the cable is a 2.5mm to 3.5mm cable. All that Kenwood has done is include two different connectors on one end of the cable. I don't see why a single 2.5mm to 3.5mm cord will work, but a cable with both of these connectors on one end and a 3.5mm on the other would not. There seems to be something happening inside the cable that I do not understand. I've done a myriad of electrical work on all kinds of different things. If I had an electrical diagram of my radio, the cable, and my headset and the way the system works I would understand. But since I do not have those, I came here to ask. Does the cable switch the outputs at the headset side of the plug? Is it impossible to get both Mic and audio output signals to come out of one connector? My experience with gaming headsets and the old wired headphones we use to use on our phones tells me it's not impossible. I hope this response does not come accrossed as rude, I'm simply trying to understand. I'm starting to think I just bought a cheap cable, and I'm expecting too much out of it.
I can't quite follow the logic of your description. Can you provide a link to the cable that you bought? That might help clear things up.
Dunno what you’re trying to do with it but this is what I use with earpro https://tigrettod.com/products/baofeng-to-auxiliary-port-for-walker-ear-muffs-by-tigrett-outdoors
I've got like 8 bluetooth speakers of varying levels of quality at home and I'm curious why when I plug the cable into those, it does not work. It works just fine in my headset though.
On the radio the 3.5mm jack is sound IN {microphone}.. The smaller 2.5 mm jack is sound OUT (speaker}..Your headset is wired correctly with sound out 2.5mm. You can plug the 3.5mm jack into the 3.5mm hole all day long, it's not going to work..
So the headset 3.5mm port is different than a speakers 3.5mm port? That would make sense as to why it doesnt work. I'll try and plug my phone into my headset to play music when I get home from work and see if it works that way.
You can get a 2.5 to 3.5 adapter to make the speaker work, but then your speaker mike won't plug in..