[Elecraft] [K2] no speaker audio (perhaps bad headphone jack?)

[Alan D. Wilcox]

John,
Sounds like the same symptoms I've seen with my K2 recently. When I 
jiggle the phone plug a bit, sometimes the spkr comes back, sometimes 
not. I'm about to replace the headphone jack.

If I need to plug in headphones, I'll use a short plug+jack cable 
that'll remain plugged in. Let THAT jack take the mechanical stress.

Cheers, Alan

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On 1/19/11 11:00 AM, Dave Sergeant wrote:
> You have probably already checked this, but:
>
> Is the lead to the speaker plugged into P5 on th RF board?
> Do you get audio if you plug the headphones or a speaker into the rear
> Ext Speaker socket?
> Is the speaker itself OK, and all wiring intact?
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> On 19 Jan 2011 at 10:33, John Shadle wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I read through the archives and am wondering if I may have fallen prey
>> to the "bad headphone jack" problem. I am able to hear just fine when I
>> have my headphones plugged in, but get no audio out of the speaker when
>> I remove the headphones.
>>
>> For the record, the speaker *did* work at one point...and I only
>> started using the rig in October. Although I do pull the headphones out
>> quite a bit since that's what I use to listen when I operate. This
>> problem started a few weeks ago and I'm just now starting to think about
>> trying to find a solution to it.
>>
>> I'm using the K2 with the KPA100 mounted on top. (At one point I had the
>> KAT100/KPA100 in the same enclosure, but I have since moved to an SGC
>> SG-239 at the base of my vertical and no longer need the KAT100 at this
>> time.)
>>
>> Any tips for troubleshooting this problem?
>>