[Yaesu] Post? FL7000-FT900 Cable

[Phil Barnes-Roberts]

At 04:01 AM 10/3/02 -0400, yaesu-request@mailman.qth.net juggled the keys 
to produce...

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>Message: 10
>From: "Doc" <doc@cybermesa.com>
>To: <yaesu@mailman.qth.net>
>Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:16:25 -0600
>Subject: [Yaesu] post?
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>Can I post the following message on the Yaesu reflector?
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>Yaesu band cable wanted:
>Does anyone have an extra band change cable to connect my FL7000 and =
>FT900?  email me price and details.
>thanks, Doc K7SO   doc@cybermesa.com
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Not sure about the FT900 end, but my FT767GX connects by an 8-DIN (the 
large, old-fashioned non-mini full-size, like old keyboards - but they're 
5-pin.)  All Electronics sells a 3-ft 8-DIN/m-to-8-DIN/m cable for 
$1.50.  See http://www.allelectronics.com for details (I have no connection 
to them, other than satisfied customer; standard disclaimer; 
YMMV.  Industrial surplus; availability variable.)

I also got from them, a couple of 8-conductor-plus-coax cell-phone 
coil-cords for a buck each, in hope of making a mic. cable for my MD-1 desk 
microphone.  Has anyone seen a source for such things made-up?  I was 
hoping to avoid dealing with 8-pin Amphenol mic. connectors, but it seems 
the only route.  The estate sale that yielded the radio and mic., sad to 
say, knew not of cables.  So I get to solder fiddly-bits.  Oh yeah, and an 
8-DIN to 1/8" stereo phone plug for the KAM.  So I got a couple of 
phone-coil-phone for another $1.50 each.  Good, heavy-duty insulation on it 
(I've begun surgery on these already.)

Yaesu's Website is so awkward to use, I'm fed up with it.  If you want 
something to do with a 15-year-old radio, don't bother.  At least I haven't 
found any joy there.  There _should_ be manuals on PDF, all kinds of 
interface postings for CAT adapters, lore...  like the folks over at (ahem) 
http://www.kenwood.net (the XYL has a couple of their products, a TH22 and 
TMV7A 'blue-face' dual-band mobile.  Both deals.)

Or haven't I found (yet) the user-to-user place for such things; I'm 
keeping an eye out for any good pointers...

Comments?

73, Phil Barnes-Roberts AD6PQ < Mailto:pbarnrob at acm dot org >
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