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Fabricating a programming/cloning cable

Thread starter WI3EMT
Start date Aug 6, 2013

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WI3EMT

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Aug 6, 2013

Howdy, all. I have recently received a donation of approximately 70 VX-800U portables, along with about 60 or so MH-50A7A speaker mics. Some of these are pretty gnarly, but most seem to be serviceable with a little cleanup.

My question is this : since I have an abundance of these speaker mics, would it be possible to homebrew a programming and/or cloning cable ?

I suspect that the pins for the speaker mics are different than the pinout for the programming, but this is just a theory.

Could anyone shed a little light on this matter ?

Thanks and 73 , de KC9MDQ