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… for making the power connector for the FT-817 a nonstandard and apparently unique size. I sacrificed the power cable of a multi-voltage wall-wart which had a set of interchangeable tips to make a cable I could use to run the ‘817 from my lab bench supply for an experiment. One of the tips looked to my eyes exactly the same as the one on the Yaesu charger, even down to having a yellow plastic insulator at the tip. But stupid me I didn’t think to check it would actually go in before severing the cable from the wall-wart and now I find that it doesn’t. So not only did the wall-wart lose its cable in vain but I now can’t do my experiement, since it would have taken longer than the ‘817’s woefully inadequate batteries would permit. Grrr!!

I can’t even find an FT-817 power cable on eBay.