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List:       elecraft
Subject:    Re: [Elecraft] Last Click Serial Port
From:       Don Wilhelm <donwilh () embarqmail ! com>
Date:       2019-01-28 16:33:07
Message-ID: adaccadc-4715-e9e5-9f41-179f46dea50d () embarqmail ! com
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Mike and all,

That is my experience with RJ45 plugs as well.  Rather than just pushing =

on the 'boot', it is helpful to pull the boot back a bit and push on the =

connector body itself, then slide the boot back in place.  That is true =

not only for the K3S RJ-45 connector, but any RJ-45 in my wired ethernet =

network.  Listen for that final click.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 1/27/2019 10:00 AM, Mike Greenway wrote:
> Since I have incurred a situation at lest 3 times on my K3S, since it mig=
ht help someone I thought I would share some info.  On occasion I need to u=
n-cable the K3S when working an something and like a fool thinking when I p=
ut it all back together it is going to work first time.  I do have everythi=
ng labeled so I do get everything into the right connector.  The problem I =
have had to arise several times, once everything is ready to check the, the=
 RS232 serial port will not communicate.
> =

> After a lot of work each time it has turned out to be that the RJ45 conne=
ctor for the RS232 jack, even though what appeared to be fully plugged in, =
pushing on it there would be a faint =93click=94 signifying it is truly ful=
ly seated.  From where I thought I had it fully plugged in to actually bein=
g full could not have been a 64th of an inch if that. Not even sure if ther=
e is any further travel I just hear the faint click.  So if you use the RJ4=
5, even though the RJ45 appears to be in fully, if you have com port commun=
ication problems to your computer or cant talk to your P3, see if you hear =
that faint =93last click=94 in the RJ45.  It is not just my particular K3S,=
 I have seen the same situation on a second one.  73 Mike K4PI
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