Fred:

There's no raised marking on my plug, which is part of the problem. ... I 
have no real way to tell which way the plug should go in, at least as far as 
I can tell.

So, I have to kind of turn it around and work with it, until I get it in the 
jack correctly, which is probably how I got into my little problem earlier 
today.

I never push in with a great deal of pressure, but the pins on the connector 
seem to bend quite eassily.  Complicating things further is the fact that 
the jack on the radio is at a strange angle.


73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

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Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: question on programming cable for Kenwood TMV7A


> Tom,
>
> Look for some kind of raised marking on the plug which goes in to the 
> radio
> and note which way it is pointing, at least I believe there is a dot or
> something, else, take some elmer's glew and mark the cable on the top,
> closer to the wire end and that way you can turn it to the proper 
> position.
> You could also of course use a piece of dymo tape to mark the cable.
>
> Fred Olver
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:37 PM
> Subject: question on programming cable for Kenwood TMV7A
>
>
>> Hi, Folks.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a full-proof way to correctly plug the programming
>> cable
>> for the TMV7A into the radio?
>>
>> For those of you with TMV7A's, who also do the software programming,
>> you'll
>> recall that the DB9 plug goes into the left corner of the radio at kind 
>> of
>> an odd angle, and is very hhard to insert correctly.
>>
>> Today, I was doing some programming for one of my TMV7A's, and
>> inadvertently
>> bent a few of the pins on the plug.  I didn't think I had exerted that
>> much
>> pressure, but obviously, I was wrong.
>>
>> Fortunately, the XYL spotted the problem, re-straightened the pins, and
>> now
>> the cable works again.
>>
>> I simply an mooking for a safe way to insert that plug without causing
>> further problems.
>>
>> Fortunately, the plug on the programming cable for the newer TMV71A is
>> much
>> easier to use, due to the fact that it is very clearly keyed to go in 
>> only
>> one way, and because the jack is a straight connection on the back of the
>> rig.
>>
>> Thanks, and 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>>
>