[Elecraft] K1 internal speaker dead

[Kevin Rock]

I have talked with a number of Elecraft rig owners who have had the jack 
go dead.  I guess this news did not get disseminated on this list.  All 
were word of mouth or on the air comments.  I also have heard the various 
work arounds more than once.  Some folks have just been luckier than 
others with their rigs.  I did not know I had a problem until I unplugged 
the headphones (1/8 inch stereo plug) from the jack.  They had been 
plugged in for almost a year when I tried listening to the speaker.  It 
was dead.  So I wrote a note to Gary and got his response.  I will dig it 
out of my archives since this seems to be occurring to others' rigs 
lately.  Not uncommon from my unscientific statistical sampling.
    73,
       Kevin.  KD5ONS





On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 09:26:07 -0700 (PDT), Ralph Tyrrell <w1tf at yahoo.com> 
wrote:

> Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> K1 internal speaker dead
> After many months of use my internal speaker went
> silent. I had seen  "K2 internal speaker dead"
> postings and guessed  that the same component was used
> in both radios.
> I did not want to unsolder the headphone jack. My
> solution was to put a jumper from the audio source to
> the speaker lead. If I do not want speaker output I
> put a something ( http://tyrrell.us/amateur ) over the
> speaker.
>
> 72, Ty, K1 1423