AOR 8000 - Programming Cable

[AOR-262]

Am looking to possibly attempt to build my own as the programming cable for the AOR 8000 seems impossible to find. I have the schematic diagram for the 8000 and it appears as if a 7-way flat ribbon cable would be needed. However, it seems also that a 7-way flat ribbon cable is also impossible to find -- it would also need a flat-end connector that I believe slides into a socket on the circuit board of the 8000. Has anyone ever made their own programming cable for the 8000, have one for sale ... or know where to get one?

 

[wa8pyr]

Am looking to possibly attempt to build my own as the programming cable for the AOR 8000 seems impossible to find. I have the schematic diagram for the 8000 and it appears as if a 7-way flat ribbon cable would be needed. However, it seems also that a 7-way flat ribbon cable is also impossible to find -- it would also need a flat-end connector that I believe slides into a socket on the circuit board of the 8000. Has anyone ever made their own programming cable for the 8000, have one for sale ... or know where to get one?

Unless AOR still sells them, it's probably unobtanium.

A fairly popular modification to the AR8K was to install a 3.5mm or 2.5mm jack in the side of the radio and use that as a programming port.

AR8000 Serial Link

Tom

 

[dkf435]

Installed 2 3.5mm stereo jacks with tip on on TX data and ring RX data and sleeve ground, Other one was discriminator audio and squelch. With that combo you could use it with the Scout and the Opto CX12 interface and DC440 ctcss dtmf decoders. Will look may have 1 or 2 of the AOR USA interfaces around that are FFC cable. Have a real AOR CU232 that was not allowed to be here because you could clone an open radio to the blocked one and make it unblocked. But Scan Cat and others had the EEPROM editors.

David

 

[rfwyzard]

I have the cable and the CX12 interface but I'm not selling them. I have 2 AR8000's. One of them has the modified battery cover with the Scout adapter cable. Unfortunately the Scout battery leaked and it no longer works. Adafruit has cables similar to what you need but are a little too wide. They're Raspberry Pi camera cables. You may be able to lop off the extra contacts. Part number 1648.

 

[dkf435]

I took some 8 or 10 pin FFC cables out of a VCR with the same pitch and shaved them down. After the CX12AR came out with the FFC to 3.5MM adapter the OptoLinx interface came out with a FFC connector and would do CI-V full duplex or AOR half duplex on the 3.5MM

David