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So in the end I did get all this working. I did two things: In order to conclusively figure out the pinouts between the different connectors, I got a 5935-01-587-7966 which if you look on the bay which is e some people are selling. It's like a rosetta stone for this problem. These were intended...
Someone PM'd me, I guess I forgot to mention:
VAA - solid red & solid black (at least on mine!). Sorry I don't remember which are which. The one pulled negative should be tx on the VAA. Harmless to try both ways. The pins are adjacent (same row).
Radio - 13 rx & 15 tx. Looking at the radio in...
Printed up some prototype connector shells to work on the dimensions. Looks like I can get the spring loaded contacts off the shelf, so should have this all buttoned up once I get some of those in and finalize a design. I avoided getting a 3D printer for a long time but it turns out they are...
For awhile now I've had a back-burner project to get a military radio setup working in my LMTV. The first phase of that was getting a VIC-3 system installed, which I mated to a Yaesu FT-857 by making a cable. I have all that mounted in one of the equipment racks that go behind the passenger...