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Kenwood TK-5810 Unable to program with remote head kit

chriswjackson84

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Hi. I have a TK-5810 V3 radio. When the control head is mounted to the deck I can program the radio fine. When I added the remote head kit with the 17' the radio will show program but have a connection error. I have a short 2' remote head cable used for dual deck setup that I swapped with the 17' remote cable to keep me from having to take apart everything and that allowed programing just fine. The programing cable I have is from eBay and not OEM. Do you think a different programing cable would work? Are the same mic connection pins for programing available on the 25pin acc connector? Thanks for any help.
 

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I think your testing indicates that the E-Bay cable is bad.

Not sure about the 5810's, but some other Kenwood radios will let you program through the rear DB25. Let me do some checking and get back to you.
 

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The only one to purchase after market programming cables from Bluemax49ers. You know they will always work and he been doing this a long time with standing behind the cables.

Beyond Cables That Work!
 

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Thanks for the reminder. meant to see if they can be programmed through the DB-25.

I don't see anything in the service manual that suggests that.

I agree with @hill if you are not going to purchase the Kenwood OEM cable, BlueMax is your best bet.
 
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