[Kenwood] TV-506 Cable

[Dave]

Hi Bill -

Welcome to the "tranverter without a cable" club!

There was a thread about this recently on the Yahoo TS-520 820 530 830 
group.  The only place known to sell these cables is in Japan: 
http://www.toyama-smenet.or.jp/~tmt/page1c.htm 
<http://www.toyama-smenet.or.jp/%7Etmt/page1c.htm>

They run about $60 bucks, without shipping, and the company does NOT 
take orders outside of Japan.   I can't remember a cable ever offered 
for sale on these lists, and I have a TV-502 waiting for one.   If you 
could find a ham in Japan to get one for you, I'd guess the total cost 
to get one into the USA would be about $80 to $100.

I haven't taken the time yet to start looking for alternatives, but one 
idea is to find a commonly available substitute connector for the 
transverter and rig.  Ideally, it would fit the hole so there's minimal 
metalwork involved.  That's not, however, a trivial project.

If you, (or anyone else) can solve this problem, there will be a lot of 
grateful hams out there.

 - Dave
 W6OT



William S. White wrote:
> I picked up a TV-506 on eBay and the seller has misplaced the cable.
> It was included in the auction and in the pictures, but not in my 
> package.
> He has offered a full refund or a partial refund so I can find another 
> cable.
> I don't see too many TV-506's, so I'd like to keep it...
>
> Dose any one have the main cable they would be willing to part with?
>
> Could the connection cable from the 599 twins be used?
> Looks like maybe if a couple pins were removed....
> Hard to tell from this picture:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Kenwood-599-Transceive-cable-Original-NR_W0QQitemZ120115044858QQihZ002QQcategoryZ4671QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem 
>
>
> HELP
> Bill
> KC2PCF
>
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