Hello Don, I have been following this tread. I have had my K3 for about two years and the mic socket will turn a little. I said something a year or so ago on line here but never got any feed back. Do you think it a defect, or just needed play and should be well enough left alone. Never had any issues with the mic. Karl N6XVT On Mar 9, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> Knut, > > On the K2, you may access the mic jack by removing only the left side > panel,but on the K3, I believe you must remove the front panel assembly > to gain access to the base of the mic jack - you do not have to remove > the front panel from its metal enclosure, nor do you need to remove the > DSP board. > > If you look at K3_Application_Note_Front_Panel_Microphone_Grounding.pdf > on the Elecraft website, you can see how to gain access. Lok carefully > at Figure 4 on page 2, and you will see that the microphone jack shell > is grounded by a wire in the K3. That wire provides the grounding that > I mentioned, however it does not provide mechanical stability for the > mic jack shell (which is not important IMHO, but may ba a "problem" to > some other folks). Soldering the shell to the ground plane will provide > the "lack of wobble" that some may desire. > > 73, > Don W3FPR > > ab2tc wrote: >> I might want to do that. Is there any truth to the rumor that this can be >> accessed by removing the left side panel only? I really don't want to got >> through the front panel disassembly and reassembly. >> >> AB2TC - Knut >> >> > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
