# Kenwood TS-440S Lessons and Settings

**URL:** <https://forum.digirig.net/t/kenwood-ts-440s-lessons-and-settings/9600>\
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**Tags:** kenwood-ts-440, kenwood-ts-440s, software-wsjtx\
**Created:** [September 3, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.digirig.net/t/kenwood-ts-440s-lessons-and-settings/9600 "2025-09-03T15:49:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![sajudycki](https://forum.digirig.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@sajudycki](https://forum.digirig.net/u/sajudycki)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://forum.digirig.net/t/kenwood-ts-440s-lessons-and-settings/9600/5 "2025-09-20T11:25:28Z")

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Hi Kyle,

Thanks for adding to my post about fixing Kenwood issues to make Digirig work or work better. I’ll be honest, I’m still pretty new at this stuff and I wasn’t quite sure what you were talking about. But I searched and found that your problem was not unique. Apparently you did exactly the right thing to correct your audio issue. See:

> [@Digirig mobile input attenuator](https://forum.digirig.net/t/digirig-mobile-input-attenuator/560):
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> The audio from my FT-817 is too high and cannot be adjusted lower using the regular level controls. I took apart my digirig mobile to see if I could cut the trace between the ATT pads, but I do not see a trace. Does it come precut or do I just not see the trace?

Thankfully, I don’t have THAT audio issue. My audio issue is one of low volume. It must be a bad or marginal speaker or speaker cable within my TS-440S. Volume is more than adequate with headphones through the headphone jack, and I get some improvement with a small, amplified external speaker through the rear external speaker jack. But since I only use this radio for FT-8, and I keep the volume at bare minimum, my issue is non-impacting at this time.

Regards,

Steve Judycki  
N1JUD

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