Hi,

A good friend just repaired a cable for my Astatic Echomax 2000. It was an original 6 wire coil cable with a 5 pin uniden plug at one ened and a Cat 5 on the other. I have lots of good uniden 5 pin plugs already wired to coil cable but it has 5 wires inside. Can this 5 pin plug and cable be wired properly to an Astatic Echomax 2000 mic with a Cat 5 plug even though the 6th yellow wire is not there?

Thanks,

Androx

Hi Androx and welcome to the forum. WOW now that is some question and as you can see we are not many as yet but I hope someone can answer your question because Im afraid I cant. I know there is a few clever guys on here and Ill make contact with them and see if they can solve this question for you.

Incredible good question and one not at all easy to answer. It is my belief the yellow wire is not needed. A friend of mine has one here wired for a Lincoln and the yellow wire was cut free and not used. But the mike works,

Otherwise i have no idea at all. Thats the prize winner for question of the year so far 2012

73s Simon

Thanks Simon lets hope he gets it sorted and lets us know for others in the future.

Connector Wiring:
WHITE - Audio
SHIELD - Ground
RED - Transmit control
BLUE OR BROWN - Switching common
BLACK - Receive control
YELLOW - Not Used

Common microphone plug wiring schemes:
4 PIN FEMALE PLUG WITH LOCKING RING:
COBRA, UNIDEN, EXPORT RADIOS
WHITE - PIN 2
SHIELD - PIN 1
BLUE OR BROWN - PIN 1
RED - PIN 3
BLACK - PIN 4
YELLOW - N/C

5 PIN DIN CONNECTOR:
COBRA, MIDLAND
WHITE - PIN 1
SHIELD - PIN 4
BLUE OR BROWN - PIN 4
RED - PIN 2
BLACK - PIN 5
YELLOW - N/C

5 PIN FEMALE PLUG WITH LOCKING RING:
COBRA, UNIDEN
WHITE - PIN 1
SHIELD - PIN 2
BLUE OR BROWN - PIN 4
RED - PIN 5
BLACK - PIN 3
YELLOW - N/C