Thanks, David and David. Still no luck. I tried the following sequence using both "disk6" and "rdisk6". The resulting SD cards still won't boot.
¡insert source SD card
diskutil list
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/rdisk6
sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk6 of=SDBackup2.dmg bs=16M conv=fsync status=progress
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/rdisk6
¡remove source and insert destination SD card
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/rdisk6
sudo dd of=/dev/rdisk6 if=SDBackup2.dmg bs=16M conv=fsync status=progress
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/rdisk6
? ?...doug