The FT-897 uses an 8-pin mini-Din for this purpose. I recommend getting a prewired cable, cutting off one end and attaching a male RCA plug to the appropriate wires. It's a lot easier than trying to solder wires to a mini-DIN. I found this out when trying to rewire the microphone plug on a FT-430 many years ago. Here's a suitable cable:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10215&cs_id=1021501&p_id=522&seq=1&format=2 Bob, N7XY On Aug 9, 2011, at 6:10 PM, iain macdonnell - N6ML wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Don Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote: >> Randy, >> >> Those posts are all looking for information about the KPA500 to K3 cable >> - and that can be accommodated by purchasing the cable from Elecraft or >> by building your own. >> >> Your question involves a non-Elecraft transceiver, and those cables are >> not sold by Elecraft - they might be in the future, but not at this >> time. You will either have to build one for your transceiver and KPA500 >> combo or have it built for you by someone who might volunteer. >> >> You *can* operate with your transceiver without the cable. Just connect >> the KPA500 to your transceiver and connect a Key-out (transceiver) cable >> to the KPA500 key-in. The KPA500 will quickly detect the band and >> switch accordingly. > > ... except the FT897D probably doesn't have a convenient "key out" > jack - it's probably a pin on a mini-DIN connector, hence the need for > a special (fiddly to make) cable. > > ~iain / N6ML > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 _____ N7XY DX Cluster Node - telnet to n7xy.net, port 7300 ______________________________________________________________ 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
