[arm-allstar] BBB

[Bill WD9EQD]

John,

 

Ron put me onto the use of mouse extension cables.

 

I ended up using some KVM cables that I had laying around at work

to make a cable for Yaesu FT—817.  Works great.

 

You can get the DB-25 male connector at Radio Shack that has

the individual pins that you can solder to and then push them into

the connector.  I find that a lot easier to do than to try to solder the

backs of the pins when they are already in the connector.  You end up

with a DB-25 connector that only has the 5 to 6 pins in it instead of

the complete 25 pins.

 

Bill

WD9EQD

 

 

 

 

From: arm-allstar-bounces at hamvoip.org [mailto:arm-allstar-bounces at hamvoip.org] On Behalf Of John
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 2:10 PM
To: BeagleBone Black ARM Allstar
Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] BBB

 

Great information, Ron! Thanks for that pearl. I was eyeing some extension cables at Radio Shack but thought they'd be shy of a wire or two. I'll revisit that approach.

 

John

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On Jun 25, 2014, at 12:06 PM, Ron Wenig <rwenig at verizon.net <mailto:rwenig at verizon.net> > wrote:

Hi John,

During my packet days I've made cables that connected to the 6 pin din connector that is used for packet TNCs and now can be used for the Allstar URIx.  I also got stuck on the fact that the mouse cable, usually you had spare mice laying around, didin't have all 6 wires connected to the molded connector.  I've found that mice extension cables had all wires connected and 1 cable that are normally used for KVM switches can make 2 cables.  You can get the connectors from Mouser but man are those solder connections small and hard to see :-)

73, Ron NY3J




The major hiccup in my node construction now is lack of a mini-din connector to tap into the data port on a Kenwood TMV-7. I thought I could sacrifice an old mouse cable, but the darned thing lacks wires on the proper pins. Cable is on order. In the mean time, I downloaded and installed Steve Henke's PTT Dispatcher (iaxrpt)

 

 

73 for now

 

John / WB5NFC
John Kenney 






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