WX5812
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I am not a fan of these on the 8500. I have debating on buying alot of adapters to n female or sma. Instead of buying alot of coax already made with a qma male. for those that maintains alot of these radios what do you do?
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APX QMA antenna connector
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WX5812
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I can agree with that being able to snap in.
Make friends with someone who maintains or has access to old Ericsson 2G and 3G equipment. Those base stations came loaded with QMA to TMA and QMA to SMA cables.
I’ve got a V/U APX7500 and an 800 APX4500 so I’ve cut the ends off and crimped on mini UHFs to go between my triplexor and radios.
I’ve got a V/U APX7500 and an 800 APX4500 so I’ve cut the ends off and crimped on mini UHFs to go between my triplexor and radios.
You can order the connectors. Or adapter cables from MSI (QMA-Mini-UF). I use both in my truck just because i didn't have the connectors yet and pulled out a 7500 so cable worked. First connector was a pain but since then not bad.
WX5812
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I have several of the 8500's with a broke qma. I have no idea how this happens. I cant seem to find an exact replacement. I can see a few similar at mouser and digikey.
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FFPM571
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They break very easily. I had one come right out of the box from Motorola went to install it plugged the antenna and it fell apart. Off to the depot it went.
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