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Is there a housing difference between the Kenwood NX-5000 and the VP-5000.

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Is there a housing difference between the Kenwood NX-5000 and the VP-5000. I’m looking for the yellow housing kit for the VP-5000 but all I can find is the KWD-YH-5000 on the web and it says it is for the Kenwood NX-5200K2, NX-5300K2, NX-5000K5, NX-5400K2.

The housing looks similar but I cannot tell if they are exact or have different dimensions etc.

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The VP5000 is an NX5000 running EFJ's Linux-based firmware. Same FCC ID. The only physical difference is the keypad membrane; EFJ uses a slightly different key layout.
 
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