[Elecraft] K2 and Headphones

2011-02-12 Thread Steve Anne Ray
Being lazy and hating to plug and unplug headphones, I simply made an audio box that I feed the audio from the speaker output of the K2 to a switch that switches between my head phones and my external speaker. I use an old Heathkit Speaker HS-1661 rather then the built in Elecraft speaker. The

[Elecraft] K2 speaker/headphones switching.

2011-01-17 Thread Christopher Kimball
Just bought a new K2 #4913. All is great, however, inserting a headphone doesn't cut off the speaker. The headphone plug is a standard 3.5 mm plug. The schematics show the plug should cut the speaker. Is there an internal parameter that needs setting? If not what's the easy way to access

Re: [Elecraft] K2 speaker/headphones switching.

2011-01-17 Thread Don Wilhelm
Chris, In all probability, the little plastic lever which operates the switch inside the headphone jack has broken. It usually fails with no speaker, but it can fail either way. It is a bit of a pain, but you can shut off the speaker by plugging an empty jack into the external speaker jack