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 <[email protected]> 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 > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > -- 72, Rich Hurd / WC3T / DMR: 3142737 Northampton County RACES, EPA-ARRL Public Information Officer for Scouting Latitude: 40.761621 Longitude: -75.288988 (40°45.68' N 75°17.33' W) Grid: *FN20is* ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
