[Elecraft] Rt Angle DB9 Connector in KPA100

[Tom Hammond NØSS]

Tim:

>I noticed the connector supplied in my kit had metal locating fingers
>protruding on same side as contacts. There are no holes in PC board for
>these fingers and just clipping them off leaves a potential shorting of
>bypass caps directly below the fingers. Did I miss a reference to these or
>did I get a rouge connector? I pulled the metal up through the plastic body
>and then snipped of the fingers to prevent a possible short.

That's pretty much what I did, too.

I grabbed onto the remaining 'shards' with a pair of pliers and bent them 
back 'n forth until they broke off cleanly. Then I cleaned up the bakelite 
a bit with some heavy-duty wire cutters. Worked well.

73,

Tom  N0SS