I second the motion for Dave Van Wallaghen. The man is a genius with repairs. He fixed my KX3 recently, and did a stupendous job!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 73, Gwen, NG3P On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 5:09 PM W3FPR via Elecraft <[email protected]> wrote: > Charlie, > > The headphone/ext speaker jack on the K1 has 5 (or 6) places to > desolder, so it is easy if you have good desoldering tools, but > difficult if you do not. > > Do not consider drilling out the thru-plated holes as one customer of > mine did - that was a long time ago, and I quit repairing radios. > Drilling out the holes will ruin the K1 board. > > Dave Van Wallaghen W8FGU currently does K1 repairs for Elecraft, send an > email to [email protected] and he should contact you. > > Unless you have the kit for the 4 band board, adding additional bands is > not possible because Elecraft no longer produces that kit. > > 73, > Don W3FPR > > On 2/2/2026 2:37 PM, Charlie Wilber via Elecraft wrote: > > I recently purchased a K1 with autotuner installed and speaker not > working. > > Seller thinks fault is in external phone jack. Unit is 20/40 meter model. > > Would replacing phone jack be simple or would it be better to send to > > Elecraft for repair? Would they also add additional bands if requested? > Any > > advice will be appreciated. 73, Charlie, N1AOK > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
