[Elecraft] [K2] BAND+ push button failure...

[Don Wilhelm]

Steve,

That certainly sounds like you have one of those rare occurrences - a 
bad switch.  It certainly can happen - actually most any part can fail 
at times, but a bad switch is quite low on my list of usual suspects.

73,
Don W3FPR

Steve Kallal wrote:
> Don,
>
> I just spent most of the afternoon going over every trace that is part 
> of the connection between the Front Panel, RF, & Control boards 
> looking for solder bridges and frayed wires. Remember this started as 
> a volume control mod requiring cuts and jumpers on all the above boards.
>
> That said, I noticed the BAND+ tap/hold works every time if I push the 
> button differently. I normally push the button horizontally, that is 
> towards the rear of the rig. The tap/hold function works every thing 
> if I press vertically towards the bottom of the rig. That makes me 
> suspect the switch is going bad. It doesn't explain why the problem 
> just started after my other volume control mod.
>
> I will probably order some switches from Elecraft and see if that 
> fixes it.
>