[Elecraft] [K3]Microphone socket wobble

[Don Wilhelm]

Knut,

On the K2, you may access the mic jack by removing only the left side 
panel,but on the K3, I believe you must remove the front panel assembly 
to gain access to the base of the mic jack - you do not have to remove 
the front panel from its metal enclosure, nor do you need to remove the 
DSP board.

If you look at K3_Application_Note_Front_Panel_Microphone_Grounding.pdf 
on the Elecraft website, you can see how to gain access.  Lok carefully 
at Figure 4 on page 2, and you will see that the microphone jack shell 
is grounded by a wire in the K3.  That wire provides the grounding that 
I mentioned, however it does not provide mechanical stability for the 
mic jack shell (which is not important IMHO, but may ba a "problem" to 
some other folks).  Soldering the shell to the ground plane will provide 
the "lack of wobble" that some may desire.

73,
Don W3FPR

ab2tc wrote:
> I might want to do that. Is there any truth to the rumor that this can be
> accessed by removing the left side panel only? I really don't want to got
> through the front panel disassembly and reassembly.
>
> AB2TC - Knut
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