Hi, I was going to suggest the Kenwood, and it is a nice radio, but it
still is and was a lot of money, and of course Radio Shack no longer makes
HTs, so if it worked fine before the battery became toast I would suggest
getting a new battery pack fo it.





On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Tracy Son wrote:

> Hello Listers.
> My old radioshack ht202 battery pack went south and will not charge any more
> so in the garbage the battery went.
> The radio is so old I hate to get another pack for it and then have the
> radio stop working 4 months later.
> What is a good easy 2 meater or dool bander radio that is user friendly.
> I thought about the kenwood tryband ht but it's to much money to pay for an
> ht.
> Thank you.
> Tracy Son.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 20:31
> Subject: Re: ic7000
>
>
> > I'm coming to think I'm very lucky. I'm in a residential area and no one's
> > ever home and I have berry little noise around here. It is more now than
> > it
> > used to be but it's really pretty quiet around here. Not like on vacation,
> > but nothing will ever be like that again for me I'm sure. It was a hole
> > street of summer places with a few year round places way down, my radio
> > was
> > so quiet there you'd think the RF gain was way down or something I mean,
> > the
> > lightest hiss was about it but when there was a station in there, I could
> > really pull them out easy. Not like that here, but from talking to people,
> > I
> > am real lucky and I think most of that is the fact no one's ever around
> > out
> > here. I suppose I'd better enjoy it while it lasts.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 8:47 PM
> > Subject: Re: ic7000
> >
> >
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> I'm getting so many local noise sources around here that it doesn't
> >> really
> >> matter what I put on HF--I can't hear anything anyway.  It seems like I
> >> am
> >> getting a lot of digital crud from home consumer devices in neighbor's
> >> houses.  I sat up last night with the Sony ICF2010 and the HF listening
> >> was
> >> pretty bad.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, the group I used to go out with for Field Day has folded
> >> up,
> >> so I don't really have much of a reason to maintain a "go" pack.  II'm
> >> hashing over whether or not I want to keep the Icom 706 Mk IIg station or
> >> whether it is time to cash it in.
> >>
> >> 73, de Lou K2LKK
> >>
>