# Build your own Flash Cable

**URL:** https://discourse.checkcheckonetwo.com/t/build-your-own-flash-cable/2053
**Category:** Professional Radios
**Created:** [November 3, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://discourse.checkcheckonetwo.com/t/build-your-own-flash-cable/2053 "2015-11-03T22:10:59Z")
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### Author: ![Andy](https://discourse.checkcheckonetwo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://discourse.checkcheckonetwo.com/u/Andy)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://discourse.checkcheckonetwo.com/t/build-your-own-flash-cable/2053/47 "2019-01-13T18:03:02Z")

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> [@johnw](#):
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> ask a stupid question, how to open the housing of the DTR connector? Here is what I plan to do:
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> 1. open the DTR connector housing
> 2. disconnect shield to the connector hook
> 3. connect shield to pin 15
> 4. open the cable in the middle, strip out some shielding, and tap my 12 V to the shield to the DTR.
> 
> Tell me if this will work or not?

[A very kind person has created a video on how to build the cable…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lImfJcsgBmQ)

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