Jeff,

The problem you describe has nothing to do with cycling the
battery.  There's a menu setting that controls whether or not the
radio turns off after inactivity.  You can set it to 0, 30 (the
default) or 60 minutes.  If it doesn't shut off, you probably changed
that setting and didn't know it.

Steve

On Sunday 12/18/05 10:57 Jeff Kenyon wrote:
>Hi everyone, I was just wondering how offten you cycle the batery for the
>THF6A.  I try to do it at least once a month, but haven't had much time to
>get on the air, and therefore haven't done this as reggular as I used to.
>Last night I listened to a net, and must have forgotten about the radio,
>andthen I went to bed and this morning when my repeater became active
>there were people talking and it never turned off.  I am going to charge
>it later on today, but the radio never shut itself off like I had assumed
>it had.