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BrentVogel

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Hello everyone. We have a couple of hundred APX-7500's and they are all remote mounts. I use a KVL-5000 to inject encryption keys and you can't do that through the remote control head, you have to do that directly into the radio. It seams that our radio installers that we used didn't think that we would ever have to actually get to the radio itself to connect to it, so it is vary hard on some of our squad cars to plug a programming cable into the radio. I'm wondering if i could have a custom cable made kind of a pass through cable that i could purchase a bunch of. plug one end into that port on the radio and leave the cable in the squad. then all i would need to do to connect to it, is connect my KVL-5000 cable to the end of that extension cable. Has anyone else run into this issue? if so could someone recommend a company / website that does custom cable work like this? and one last question, does anyone know the names of the connectors on the ends of these cables?
 

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You might give Mark at Northcomm Technologies a call to see if he would be willing to make a cable for this. They have designed and made various cables for Morotola radios and they have automated cable making machines. I have a couple of their RF cables and many of their Quantar control modules and their quality is first class.
 

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Motorola. I use the 2' cables on all my decks so I don't have to fight with seats covered in gear. Never tried the longer ones but the 2' works awesome.

PMKN4093
Microphone Extension Cable – 2 feet

PMKN4033
Microphone Extension Cable – 10 feet
 
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