Looking into this option as Motorola is charging 400$ currently it feels like for any cord I need. Anyone have negative experience with this?
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Amazon Cord Replacements for Motorola Radios
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Amazon cords are garbage. 100% knockoffs. Smaller than spec'd wires, shoddily done connections, cheap insulation/covers that degrade overnight, inconsistent schematics.
Any time I need a cord for a EOL'd radio, I usually go to ebay or a site like this with classifieds.
What cords do you need?
Any time I need a cord for a EOL'd radio, I usually go to ebay or a site like this with classifieds.
What cords do you need?
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3 of those are trivial to make with spare parts. I build most of my cords myself, if I am not writing the cabling purchase into a job quote.
Is this for fun/personal or business?
The rest usually pop up on the ebays from time-to-time in aftermarket form, and have varying degrees of reliability. If you search around on here you will find threads that usually have a seller name that provides a good (but not OEM) product.
Is this for fun/personal or business?
The rest usually pop up on the ebays from time-to-time in aftermarket form, and have varying degrees of reliability. If you search around on here you will find threads that usually have a seller name that provides a good (but not OEM) product.
Any recommendations on how to learn to build a cord?
some of those radio model lines are old enough to have voted several times.
The schematics are easily found on batlabs, or on other places on the internets.
Okay. What type of parts do you recommend ordering/from what supplier? Pins obviously but where would I get like the plastic black part that is the outline effectively
Don't buy oem parts. You'll go broke.
I usually buy old mics (for housings and pins), used accessory connectors (for the XTLs) and then depending on what computer interface I'm using to program via (usb / true serial) it will change what kind of wiring/interface I make up. The CDM programming wire I have came from an old serial printer and an RJ-11 crimper.
I usually buy old mics (for housings and pins), used accessory connectors (for the XTLs) and then depending on what computer interface I'm using to program via (usb / true serial) it will change what kind of wiring/interface I make up. The CDM programming wire I have came from an old serial printer and an RJ-11 crimper.
Firebuff880
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Have you checked -- ShopWiscomm.com, Motorola Solutions Parts & Accessories Superstore
ElroyJetson
Getting tired of all the stupidity.
Buy quality parts and cables. Or you risk bricking an expensive radio over a cheap cable. I'll only buy an aftermarket cable where the maker of it will vouch for it with a guarantee of performance. That basically means, I only buy OEM cables with very few exceptions.
My Motorola account pricing on OEM cables is always lower than those same OEM cables being listed online, so don't forget to check out your MOL account pricing. It's often not really that bad.
Cheap cables will cost you more.
My Motorola account pricing on OEM cables is always lower than those same OEM cables being listed online, so don't forget to check out your MOL account pricing. It's often not really that bad.
Cheap cables will cost you more.
About that… my Motorola account they tried selling me a HT1250 RIB for 450$. Do you have a special price thing or something?
ElroyJetson
Getting tired of all the stupidity.
I just bought an APX programming cable and it was about 57 bucks. From Motorola. Not seeing a problem with that.
Yeah 57$ isn’t bad. Can you PM me the link for that cable itself? The ones I see are all very expensive.
ElroyJetson
Getting tired of all the stupidity.
Part number HKN6184C for mobile APX radios.
I'll bet the RIB-less cable is way less than that.
FWIW I'm going to be listing my RIB and all of my RIB programming cables soon.
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