How silly of me! Obviously the TT "dongle" has no pin 7. It's a 5 pin DIN.
You have to make up a new DIN plug, as you can see from previous posts. Not
a hard thing, of course, but be careful if you're going to maintain the
integrity of the audio lines, pins 1, 4 and 6 which should be shielded. Your
"new" plug may look a bit funny, unless you can find some 8 wire stuff with
three shielded pairs (assumes a common ground I suspect), at least that what
Stan at TT told me. How would one go about that, anyhow?
While pin 5 currently has NC, it would be wise to at least make provision
for its future use in your connector and then not connect it on the far end.
Larry, N0XB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Menzel" <retire@means.net>
To: <na9u@arrl.net>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
<tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Question about FSK with Orion II
He wouldn't have to mess with the socket, John, just open the DIN plug and
move the wire from pin 5 to pin 7. That would work fine.
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Nason / NA9U" <na9u@arrl.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 7:08 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Question about FSK with Orion II
I would speculate that they either found a cable
vendor that made the cable that way or they are trying
to use the cable for several different
rigs/applcations. It's your rig and you do what you
want to it but I would just make up a cable rather
than tamper with the socket.
73,
John NA9U
--- CaseKE@aol.com wrote:
I would like to use the Auxiliary I/O plug and cable
sent with the Orion II
without modification if possible. The I/O socket is
8-pin and the plug is
5-pin. Pin 5 of the socket is a "no connection
(NC)," but pin 5 of the plug does
have a wire connected to it (Red). FSK is
available on pin 7 of the socket,
but there is no pin 7 of the plug (does this strike
anybody else as strange?).
Can I simply put a jumper from pin 5 of the socket
to pin 7 of the socket
(or alternatively rewire pin 7 to pin 5) so I have
FSK on pin 5 of the supplied
plug and cable?
Thanks, Ken K5KC
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