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Yeah hard learned lesson with RJ25/11/45 mic connectors. They are truly meant for solid core wire and really if you have an uninsulated stranded shield...don't even try to get that slipped into the connectors. If all the conductors are insulated, but stranded, sometimes you can get a good enough bite on them to have them work.

What I do is make pigtail adapters with telephone or CAT5 wire. To splice it in, it isn't pretty, but I've just butt soldered and carefully taped the splices if I couldn't avoid it any other way. For a hand mic, I then tend to heat shrink over top of the messy taped up splice for further strain relief and rigidity. So far so good with the half dozen or so I have kicking around.

One other thing, most of the manuf's make adapters, the Icom part is OPC-589 it converts 8 pin to RJ45.

<blockquote data-quote="SR385" data-source="post: 137628" data-attributes="member: 3106">Yeah hard learned lesson with RJ25/11/45 mic connectors.&nbsp; They are truly meant for solid core wire and really if you have an uninsulated stranded shield...don&#039;t even try to get that slipped into the connectors.&nbsp; If all the conductors are insulated, but stranded, sometimes you can get a good enough bite on them to have them work.What I do is make pigtail adapters with telephone or CAT5 wire.&nbsp; To splice it in, it isn&#039;t pretty, but I&#039;ve just butt soldered and carefully taped the splices if I couldn&#039;t avoid it any other way.&nbsp; For a hand mic, I then tend to heat shrink over top of the messy taped up splice for further strain relief and rigidity.&nbsp; So far so good with the half dozen or so I have kicking around.One other thing, most of the manuf&#039;s make adapters, the Icom part is OPC-589 it converts 8 pin to RJ45.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SR385, post: 137628, member: 3106"] Yeah hard learned lesson with RJ25/11/45 mic connectors. They are truly meant for solid core wire and really if you have an uninsulated stranded shield...don't even try to get that slipped into the connectors. If all the conductors are insulated, but stranded, sometimes you can get a good enough bite on them to have them work. What I do is make pigtail adapters with telephone or CAT5 wire. To splice it in, it isn't pretty, but I've just butt soldered and carefully taped the splices if I couldn't avoid it any other way. For a hand mic, I then tend to heat shrink over top of the messy taped up splice for further strain relief and rigidity. So far so good with the half dozen or so I have kicking around. One other thing, most of the manuf's make adapters, the Icom part is [COLOR=#000080][B]OPC-589[/B] it converts 8 pin to RJ45. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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