[Elecraft] [K3]Microphone socket wobble

[Karl Marderian]

Don,
Right you are. Some times we K3 owners can be mighty picky and not see  
the Forrest from the trees.
N6XVT. Karl 73

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On Mar 9, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Don Wilhelm <don at w3fpr.com> wrote:

> Karl,
>
> As I stated, it may seem to be a "problem" for some folks, but I  
> certainly do not consider it a problem at all.  It simply allows a  
> bit of play to accept a slightly misaligned microphone plug.  The  
> connector was designed that way.
> If it were mounted in a panel, the shell would not move, but the pin  
> assembly would be a bit loose - most all microphone jacks I have  
> seen have always been this way.  The difference is that in the case  
> of the K2 and K3. the pins are fixed to the board, and the same  
> effect requires that the connector shell move instead of the pins -  
> it is all relative, and definitely not a problem.
>
> Some folks just seem to be a bit paranoid about unimportant stuff.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> KARL MARDERIAN wrote:
>> Hello Don,
>> I have been following this tread. I have had my K3 for about two  
>> years and the mic socket will turn a little. I said something a  
>> year or so ago on line here but never got any feed back. Do you  
>> think it a defect, or just needed play and should be well enough  
>> left alone. Never had any issues with the mic.
>> Karl N6XVT
>> On Mar 9, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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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