<div dir="ltr">Yes you need a ground reference connection. Join the Data TX and RX together onto the data pin and it works.<div><br></div><div>I made my own cable for the VX-5 and it works.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards Bob VK2BYF</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 September 2014 05:00, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank">chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send chirp_users mailing list submissions to<br>
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1. Re: Homebrew cable for Baofeng UV-5R/Yaesu VX-7R based on<br>
CP2102 UART (YT9TP Pedja)<br>
<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: YT9TP Pedja <<a href="mailto:yt9tp@uzice.net">yt9tp@uzice.net</a>><br>To: Discussion of CHIRP <<a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>><br>Cc: <br>Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 21:08:24 +0200<br>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Homebrew cable for Baofeng UV-5R/Yaesu VX-7R based on CP2102 UART<br>On 28.9.2014 13:16, Mark Lewis GW7KDU wrote:<br>
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I found this pin out for the VX-7R<br>
<a href="http://www.kc8unj.com/pinout.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.kc8unj.com/pinout.<u></u>jpg</a><br>
This seems to be similar to the Baofeng UV-3R (as shown on the Miklor<br>
page) but is a Ground connection required?<br>
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It seems like VX-7R uses one pin for data and it is bidirectional. If that is the case then you should add some more components to convert bidirectional single pin to standard RX/TX serial connection.<br>
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