any particular reason you have to avoid stepping your 12 vdc to 5 vdc. my advice just from what i have read on here in the past, or else where is use the same voltage that the manufacture uses that way you cant go wrong and can avoid buying a new radio. look back in the archives here at bawag i think someone has already told the sad story of "upping" the voltage. otherwise my solution that was easy for this problem, is using a variable regulator that walmart, radio shack actually sells. other wise the cheaper route is a do it yourself "project", building a home brew regulator.
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