[TenTec] Hercules II Remote Bandswitching

[AC5E at aol.com]

Mike, they are not at all hard to make. I made several for use with my 
Omni's, both with and without the Y for the computer serial port.  I stripped the 
jacket off  a prebuilt "25 wire straight through" serial cable, doubled the 
wires into the Molex pins, crimped them and being a belt and suspenders sort 
soldered the connections for good measure.   

Work ONE wire at a time,  check to make sure you slip the pin in the right 
connector, and it will work every time. But, like doing anything else, "measure 
twice and  cut once."  In this case it might be better to measure three or 
four times before you slip that pin in. They are aggravating to get out without 
the right tool. 

I have a couple left, but they are currently on active rigs. But I'm 
replacing the Omni's with Orion's so I may have one for sale later.  Speaking of  
cables,  the T-T level converter for the serial port is also hard to come by. 

The 'GEE  IC735 interface from PDA (www.hosenose.com) works extremely well 
with the VI and + , and makes it easy to interface the rig to your logging 
program. BUT make sure the rig address (4 is the default) and the baud rate is the 
same as the logging program expects to see.  Otherwise it gets to be hair 
pulling time shortly. 

73  Pete Allen  AC5E