Hi Danny.

I think you did indeed have an IC02AT.  I recall that I had a softcase for 
a 02AT a number of years ago, and I put it on the HTX202 and it fit 
perfectly!  All of the cutouts were in the right places.

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 01:12 AM 10/2/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi All, In 1992 I swapped a fellow out of what he said was an Icom IC02at.
>It was a ten channel radio with 138-174 transmit and receive, took the
>standard bp3/et all icom batteries and Icom trickle charger, the Icom
>speakermic etc, but the thing had not only a front keyboard, but a channel
>or vfo click step tuning knob on top along with the vol and squelsh knobs
>and standard switches.  The thing, as I remember it, was very similar in
>feel to the radioshack htx202, but it would indeed cross the 138-174 freq
>range, and of course the htx202 won't do this.
>      Unfortunately my economics, or lack of them at the time, dictated the
>quick sale of the radio, but later when I was given another ic02at, it was
>configured the same, but had no tuning knob on the top.  I've run across and
>felt a couple of other 02ats, and none of them have had a tuning knob.
>Unfortunately, the guy I got it from said it was indeed a 02at, the fellow
>who bought it from me is out of pocket and has been for ten years, so he's
>no help, but I would really like to find out what that radio really was, as
>I'd like to have another one.  A big brick, but pretty simple to program,
>and with the public service and wx freqs, a pretty nice and handy radio.  If
>any of you can give me any help in this, I'd appreciate it.  I've sent a
>note to the elmers at eham group and asked several other folks who should
>have been able to help me figure out what indeed this was and is, but so far
>I've drawn a blank.  It's as if I never owned such a thing, sort of like a
>"twilight zone" handytalky, but it was real, honest!!!!  I really had one in
>my hands and programmed and talked on the thing, and I was wide
>awake........well as much as I ever am,  Thanks for your help, Danny Dyer,
>Wb4idu in Radio la la land hi hi.

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