A lot of those radios the same cables will work across most of them, with 
the 1/8 pin for speaker and 1/16 jack fort the mic, like the older yaesu's, 
icom's, alinco's, most of them you can actually use the same cables and when 
that radio was made, standard was part of yaesu, or the other way around, 
you might want to do research on that and see. I found a lot of that info 
out actually by searching on ebay. I'd search for the radio I was looking to 
program, find the cable, then discover in the list of radios it would 
program that another radio I had used the same cable and I had the cable for 
the other radio so I just used that one and didn't buy another one. My 
favorite was one ham radio that they wanted about 90 bucks for the 
programming cable, I had commercial gear from the same manufacturer and 
bought a genuine cable for that radio for about $25. I learned that cable 
would also program the ham radio equipment so needless to say, I wasn't 
paying all that much for that cable anyway, but I didn't pay the higher 
price anyway.
Anyway, it's something to look in to.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angelo Sonnesso" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: programming cable for the HTX420


> Not really.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 9:46 AM
> Subject: Re: programming cable for the HTX420
>
>
>> Are you sure that won't work?