First I would check the voltage before I went hunting, then once I got home, and if it was acting up I would check it again to see if there is a substantial change,
Just a Guess, but have you checked the headphone wires close? I'm thinking that water might be getting into the wire of the headphone cord and shorting out the signal. I had something similar happen, And when I tore apart the the HP's, saltwater had got-ton into the headphone cord thur one of my connectors and was turning the copper wire black, and was headed for the Pod... seems like it would happen only if I was in the deep and with in a few hours. I hunt the saltwater only with the excalbur......... I would suggest trying this...
Get yourself a set of old head phones or a small speaker, a connector from radio shack like the one I'm going to post,,,,,or I think I may have one here on a old main-board off a computer if you can't find....you want to be ready to check as soon as you get home...Hook up the small speaker or HP's to the connector..Now go hunting, the problem happens, you come back home, pull the end-cap off the pod, and pull the little plug of the main board for the audio to the headphones, then plug the little white connector into the main board.. and see if the problem is gone...if it is gone then the problem is between that point of connection and the headphones........if it is not, then the problem is from the main-board to the coil....I would bet that it is between the HP's and the white connector..............I'm going to post some pics for you, this is very easy to do, just make sure you ground yourself out by touching some pipe in the house, or a outlet screw..just a safety precaution...also get yourself some Plummers grease for when you put the endcap back in. What do you think?
