<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>If I recall correctly which most of the time I don't...heh...the VX5's</span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>jack is set into the radio farther than most others. This means the plug</span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>needs more reach. I think I remember talk of if it is possible to trim</span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span>about .020 " off the bottom of the rubber or plastic part of the plug without</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span>ruining it, this would cure problems where you have to forcibly hold the</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><span>plug in. I use an old RTSystems serial cable on an old Compaq PC that still</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><span>has two serial ports the good old COM 3 & 4. The RTS plug seems to have </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><span>more depth by maybe .020" than other plugs
I have for two different kinds </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><span>of Chinese radios. </span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Dennis Smith <m1dlguk@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, September 8, 2013 7:15 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re:
[chirp_users] yaesu vx5r<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Robert buy another cable, if the broken cable disconnects while<br>altering your settings at the wrong time you could potentially brick<br>the radio. It's not worth the risk. It might be ok, but by the same<br>token it might still happen.<br><br>Dennis Smith<br>M1DLG<br><br>On 8 September 2013 19:57, Robert Sears <<a ymailto="mailto:rtsears@comcast.net" href="mailto:rtsears@comcast.net">rtsears@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>> I have a VX-5r and also had trouble in the start. I bought my cable off<br>> E-bay and it said it was for the VX-5r and a couple others.<br>><br>> Anyway I found that it was making intermittent contact inside and if I<br>> lightly press on the connector it worked.<br>><br>> My cable has a 90 degree plug on the radio end, I make sure it is pointing<br>> down the side if the radio and put a rubber band around it to hold it
in<br>> place.<br>><br>> Now it works every time.<br>><br>> KF7VOP<br>><br>><br>> On 9/7/2013 5:59 PM, John Smale wrote:<br>><br>> I have been trying to program a VX5R with no success, I have tried 2<br>> different types of USB cables and 2 different types of programs, chirp being<br>> one of them.<br>><br>> I am able to read from the radio but when I go to write to the radio I<br>> get a comm error message.<br>><br>> Has anyone else run into this problem?<br>><br>> 73 John K2IZ<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> chirp_users mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br>> <a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users"
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