[Elecraft] CM500 headset on K3S and KX3?

[rich hurd WC3T]

I bought this because my soldering skills are not what they once were.
(Used to do MIL-spec, now I’m lucky to hit the joint with the iron. ).

https://shop.technofix.uk/hand-ptt-switch-for-elecraft-kx3-2-5mm-jack

Plugs into the ACC2 jack directly.  Instructions are on the page.   Works
FB.  It and my Yamaha are inseparable.

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 20:32 Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:

> On 5/5/2020 4:44 PM, Paul Gacek via Elecraft wrote:
> > For what its worth and everyones milage will vary, I had a brand new
> CM500 that I used for a week of hard operating while on a pretty island and
> the boom came loose after a couple of days.
>
> Your experience is unusual. In about 11 years, the only thing that has
> ever gone wrong with my CM500s have been a broken cable, which,
> unfortunately, is not replaceable. I'm kind of a klutz, so I'm hard on
> cables, dropping them, kicking them, etc. Perhaps it got broken in
> shipping?
>
> I've never used anything but VOX for SSB and digital modes. That's
> always worked just fine as long as there's not loud noise (like when the
> XYL walks through the shack and lets the screen door slam). :)
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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