The failure mode that Ingo describes is not that unusual in a K2. If you 
cannot get speaker audio, the phone jack should be one of the first 
things to check.

73,

Steve Kercel
AA4AK


Ingo Meyer, DK3RED wrote:
> Hello Nick,
>
>   
>> Looking for some help please. My K2 has developed some distortion on 
>> received signals and without warning  the internal speaker (and the external 
>> speaker jack) failed to work when turned on -- although headphones still 
>> work. I am about to check out the AF amp but wondered if my symptoms ring 
>> any bells with long-time K2 owners (I should add that my K2 was damaged by 
>> lightning static and these faults possibly spring from that time. 
>>     
>
> Maybe the headphone jack in your K2 is (a little bit) faulty. The contacts 
> for the 
> headphone works sill. But the switcher inside the jack failed. This is the 
> reason why the 
> speacker an the external speacker jack failed too.
>   

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