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Can anyone help me out. I order HKN9217A which is supposed to be the program cable for my Maxtrac radios. It took over two months due to the item being out of stock. When my package arrives I get this cable with DB25 on one end, the RJ45 on the other end and this metal box with a BNC mounted on it in the middle. The paper work says 3080070N01 replaces HKN9217A. It also does not give me any explanation on what the BNC is for or even a schematic. Any help would be appreciated. I really just want to program my radios but I would like to know what the BNC is for.

Thanks

Mark

I ended up wuth the same cable. It's a service cable. The BNC is for injecting autio tones. It will wotk fine for programming your radios.

That is the standard program cable that has been made since day one. The BNC connector is for injecting audio when doing transmit audio alignment.

OK well thanks for the info. So the part number change was just administrative, the cable itself has not changed. It just makes an already bulky programming setup even more so.

Will this cable work for CDM mobiles?

Mark

Based on info found in the model-specific section of BatLabs, it would appear that for normal programming, the cable that works on a MaxTrac will work on the CDM mobile. You will not have the ability to update the flash memory of the CDM if you use the MaxTrac cable.

A standard MaxTrac programming cable can be made with an old RJ45 network cable and a DB25 connector for a lot less than what Motorola charged you. The BNC jack is handy, but as you noted, it just gets in the way for ordinary programming purposes. If you hav to do a full alignment of a radio (setting deviation and power), then you will need a way to feed audio into the radio, and you'll be happy you have the BNC jack. I just added a piece of RG174, with a BNC plug on it, to my programming cable and that works out nicely.

Bob M.