[Elecraft] speaker problem

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Bill, K3UJ wrote:

Hmmm. The headphone jack in K2 4152 is intermittent also. I'm  holding my 
breath every time I unplug. Seems to be a problematic component, at  least
some 
of them are. Maybe there was a bad batch?

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Yes, that seems to have been a problematic component. 

I wonder how many people who have had trouble used a large plug or plug
adapter on the phones line there? 

I ask because my five-year-old K2's phone jack is FB after countless
plug-ins and un-plugs, but I may be a lot more gentler on it than most.
Instead of a large plug, I have a very small, lightweight right-angle plug
with a small, flexible wire pig-tail that goes to a large jack for the
phones connector. The pressure on the K2 jack is miniscule at best. The
large connector lies on the desk. There's only a gram or two of weight on
the connector and, since it's a right-angle connector, virtually no leverage
to amplify pressure caused by moving the phones cord around. 

I used that simply because my favorite headphones are equipped with a
1/4-inch connector, and it didn't seem a good idea to use an in-line adapter
that would place considerable stress on the tip of the plug inside the tiny
jack on the K2. 

Maybe I'm just lucky. Maybe not.

Ron AC7AC