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Well this stinks. I have a Home Patrol 2 and I took a GPS puck (BR-355R4) and a Rosewill RCW-109 cable and made a GPS for it a while back. Got the directions from the RR Forums.
My new BCD436HP has the same goofy 4 pin connector for GPS as the Home Patrol 2 does but the pinout is slightly different.
I just rewired it for the 436 to confirm it works and it does but now no cable for the Home Patrol 2. Fortunately, when I first did this the Rosewill cables were hard to come by and I bought two of them. I can make another cable but now need to buy another GPS puck.
Or just wire the one I have for one or the other scanners.
Why in the world would they make the pinouts different on scanners from roughly the same generation? Not the end of the world by a long shot but just general goofiness in the world of scanners.
My new BCD436HP has the same goofy 4 pin connector for GPS as the Home Patrol 2 does but the pinout is slightly different.
I just rewired it for the 436 to confirm it works and it does but now no cable for the Home Patrol 2. Fortunately, when I first did this the Rosewill cables were hard to come by and I bought two of them. I can make another cable but now need to buy another GPS puck.
Or just wire the one I have for one or the other scanners.
Why in the world would they make the pinouts different on scanners from roughly the same generation? Not the end of the world by a long shot but just general goofiness in the world of scanners.