[Elecraft] K-Pod data wiring

[Wes Stewart]

When my better half asked me for gift suggestions and I mentioned a K-Pod she 
thought that was a great idea since I've aggravated an old rotator cuff injury 
by constantly using my right hand tuning my K3 and running a mouse. I've since 
trained my left hand to run the mouse and thought I could run the K-Pod the same.

The problem is the supplied data cable is too short and too stiff.  (IMHO there 
are other deficiencies but those might be the subject of another message)  
Unfortunately, one is left to manufacture a cable, since there is an 
admonishment in the manual to NOT have a connection to Pin 1 (they don't want to 
rile up Jim Brown I guess).  The puzzling part is that they warn that if a 
standard RJ12 cable is modified (not sure how one would do this) to break the 
Pin 1 connection, the end with the disconnect should connect to the K3.  So I 
question: 1) Why should it matter?  2) If Pin 1 is unused why is it connected to 
something inside the K-Pod?

Wes  N7WS