[Elecraft] Speaker jack

Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy gmk at gm4esd.fsworld.co.uk
Sun Feb 11 10:34:21 EST 2007


Jerry,

I could be wrong but I think Dohn's problem is due to a faulty switch in the 
headphone jack which if stuck 'open' prevents audio getting to the speaker 
circuits.

 73

Geoff
GM4ESD

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremiah McCarthy" <wa2dkg at earthlink.net>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 3:53 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] Speaker jack


> This speaker jack problem applies only to basic K-2's...I assumed that 
> Dohn was talking about a basic K-2...The basic K-2 cover is not installed 
> in a KPA-100 so the external speaker jack cannot cause a problem...I 
> always use the external speaker jack to obtain output to the computer 
> sound card when aligning the filters with Spectrogram...This is how I 
> discovered that the new style jacks were different from the old 
> ones...When an external speaker (or a cable to your computer) is plugged 
> into one of these new speaker jacks, the internal speaker goes mute and 
> there is no output to the computer...Reversing the "AF" and "SP" 
> connections at the jack (page 79) corrects it...
>
> Jerry, wa2dkg
>





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