[Elecraft] K3S RJ-45 Pin Alignment

[Matthew Cook]

Unfortunately it's not the plug that gets flogged by the wiggle wiggle
wiggle... it's the socket.

\Replacing the socket of a RJ45 in any piece of equipment that has been
flogged to death is a little more than most Hams can cope with.  The
quality of the sockets that most manufacturers use is also questionable,
some are nothing more than wire pins bent within a plastic frame, cheap and
very nasty.

Having fought a loosing battle with Kenwood microphones in my 4WD, I've now
replaced the lot with something far more robust that has pins and positive
mec mechanical locking, no more plastic clips or bent pieces of wire and my
problems have reduces significantly.

The RJ45 sockets should stay where they were originally intended in IT
racking equipment where they are not disturbed, they are not really
intended for use i mobile/portable/high use equipment.

73

Matthew
VK5ZM



On 2 May 2016 at 14:23, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT <KX3 at coldrockshotbrooms.com>
wrote:

> Microphone connectors fail eventually, even the well-made ones with set
> screws and clamps.
>
> There is one advantage to the RJ-45 -- it's easy to clip off a little wire
> and crimp on a new one.
>
> Replacing a more traditional connector is much harder.
>
> 73 -- Lynn
>
> On 5/1/2016 9:35 PM, Edward R Cole wrote:
>
>> But the most miserable use is as a mic connector which Motorola went to.
>> Now I see many ham radio mfr's copying. Instead of molded multi-contact
>> connector with set screw which holds contact tension its just wiggle wiggle
>> that poor RJ45.
>>
>
>
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