[Elecraft] K2 headphone jack

[drewko1 at verizon.net]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:59:36 -0400,  JT Croteau, N1ESE wrote:

>I think there is confusion to what the problem part is.
>
>The headphone jack seems like a proven part.  However, from what I
>have gathered in reading the archives, the external speaker jack is
>the jack that has the most failures.  I know mine on 6233 has been
>crap since day one.

I don't use the external speaker jack so can't say what, if any,
problems it has. (But I think I'm going to put my fixed-audio output
jack in its place.) It was my headphone jack which died, and fairly
quickly, killing the speaker output.

The weak point of the headphone jack is a fragile sliding contact
which is wired in series with the speaker; so if it fails speaker
output is affected.

73,
Drew
AF2Z