[amsat-bb] CAT Cable and Rotor Controller for FT-736R

[Laird Taylor]

I have an FT-736R and have just purchased MacDoppler from AMSAT.  It will be installed in a MacBook running OS 10.13.6.

I’m shopping for a CAT cable to go between the two units.  The guy at HRO said the original Yaesu cable to go with Macs has part# FIF-65A but I don’t see anything yet on Google by that moniker.  He also said the Yaesu CAT cable for PCs is FIF-232C - which I DO see around.

Then I see a caution that there are lots of cheap cables around that use terrible chips that are a nightmare to keep running.  The only cable I’ve found so far (on eBay) is $35 and the vendor doesn’t seem to admit which chip set is used.  Amazon in the UK has a cable for sale for 16 GBP, which could be one of the cheaper ones.

Immediate questions:
1. What subset of the alleged plethora of available cables is MacDoppler compatible with CAT on the FT-736R?
2. Who sells such cables nowadays?  So far I’ve found only eBay and Amazon; it’s not even clear they’re selling the same cable - never mind the one I must use...
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Laird Taylor  N7RSR