On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not so sure... My FT-1000 MP Cat connection has a male DB9 connection, > and the K3 has a female connection. If the MP's convention is "standard" for > Yaesu rigs, then the FT2000 cord will not work. Serial cord connections on > PC's are male. The K3 requires a cord with male on one end and female on the > other. The MP requires a double female cord. That fact made all the cords > I had used with my MP directly unusable with the K3. > > If the FT2000 CAT connection on the back of the rig has pins, the cord will > not work for the K3 as is. An inexpensive male serial gender changer on the > rig end will convert a double female.
Oh, but be careful with gender changers because with serial connections, because not all serial cables are created equal; often, a double-female-ended cable will be a null modem cable (with RX/TX wires crossed), but not always. You can test your cable with a continuity tester to make sure that the pins on each end are all the same pin. The K3 needs a standard cable, not a null modem cable. See http://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/cable/RS-232.html for more info. --Vernon N7OH > I found the gender changers inconvenient with cord replacement (K3 travels a > bit with me), and eventually bought new cords. > > 73, Guy. > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:49 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It should work fine. I replace my TS570 with a K3 and used the same >> serial cable. >> >> ...bill nr4c >> >> >> Quoting Adriano <[email protected]>: >> >> > Anyone knows if the Serial to Serial cable from FT-2000 would work w/ the >> k3? >> > >> > Tnx again >> > PY2ADR >> > K3 4795 >> > ______________________________________________________________ >> > Elecraft mailing list >> > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> > Post: mailto:[email protected] >> > >> > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> > >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
