Here's a question to ponder..... Does it really matter how long the power cord for a base station radio is? All of my previous radios I cut the extra factory supplied cable out where I didn't need the excess length and spliced the two ends back together with Anderson powerpoles.
Yesterday I bought a Yaesu FTDX-10 and when I set it up last night I crimped and soldered ring terminals on the end of the factory supplied power cable to attach securely to the lugs on my power supply. This radio is in house use only, I have no intention of taking it on the road. I was about to cut down the length of the power cable as I only needed about 18" to get from the radio to the power supply. But before I cut it I started thinking about it, should I leave it at factory length? I coiled the wire up as it came from the factory and zip tied the extra together, then fired up the radio. Everything works fine. But then I started thinking, am I going to create a air wound inductor by having the coil of power cable right behind the radio that's going to give me issues? Or, cut it and put the power poles on it? What do you all do?