Thanks to all for the positive comments.
@FFPM571: You told me that I had to post the pictures that night!
@tmfok7: I used regular telephone cable and a standard keystone jack to extend the TM-D700A control head. The cable for the TM-D710A was *just* barely long enough.
I bought a surface mount 2-port keystone jack holder at Lowe's and mounted two RJ45 keystone jacks in it. We connected Cat5e cable to those keystone jacks, and ran the Cat5e to the radios for the microphone ports. That device is not pictured here, but if you friend me on Facebook (
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@W0JJK: Yes, that is a Motorola mic on the D700. I bought the mic on eBay for like $20 - someone custom wired the Moto mic to the D700 plug. I lose all of the features of the keypad mic, but the audio from the Moto mic just sounds *so* nice. I've gotten a lot of great reports from it.
I run IRLP node 4042 here in Carbondale, IL - I've got a local network problem right now that I'm working through so the node is down, but feel free to connect to my node, and I'll gladly give you some comparisons between the D710 and the D700 mic, as well as some handhelds and others if you want to hear the difference.
Cheers, all.
Gregg/KB9E
Gray 2007 Honda Civic LX Coupe
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