If you have the old battery for the hand held you might try to have it rebuilt. There are a few places online that will do that. God bless, Mark WZ0K God loves you! My personal prayer book. Add your prayer or pray for others at the following link. http://prayerbook.homewithgod.com/cgi-bin/prayerbook/multi.pl?131961113534708:24:0 http://lists.topica.com/lists/funhamradio. http://groups.google.com/group/funhamradio-list http://funhamradio.bloki.com