The problem was isolated to the CAT plug. The only way I found it was that when I physically touched the shell it was microphonic. In other words, I could hear myself running my fingers across the connector in the headphones. I unscrewed the jack-screws and the problem disappeared. MicroHam pots the inside of the connector with white RTV, so it is impossible to know if there is any sort of ground pin issue.
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