[Elecraft] KAT-500 interface cable question

[Clint Talmadge]

New guy here with a question. I am about to get a KAT-500 to mate to my
IC-7300. In searching for the Molex connector I need to make an interface
cable for the radio to the tuner, I came across the MFJ-5124I cable which
MFJ sells to mate their 99* series auto-tuners to Icom radios. The
connectors on the tuner end are the same as used on the KAT-500. The wiring
is the same with one addition. Where there is no ground connection from the
sleeve of the 3.5MM stereo plug specified in the KAT-500 manual, the MFJ
cable has the sleeve connected to the ground pin of the Icom connector.
Seeing the that the sleeve of the 3.5mm stereo connector on the KAT-500 is
chassis grounded anyway I think I can use the MFJ cable to interface my
KAT-500 to my IC-7300.  Does anyone see the flaw in my thinking? (about the
cable, not the radio) de W5CPT