"three-eight-hotel" wrote:
... the male connector on the tray seemed to be missing one
tooth (for lack of a better word) on the outer ring of the
connector and the radio, seemed to be lacking two teeth, on
the outer ring of it's male BNC connector (that's almost half!)

Aside from not being a good thing, is this a likely suspect for
some of the symptoms I have been experiencing?
....

Whatever's goin' on there will not cause a loss of sidetone.

Fred F.