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Give Chuck Turner a call.
Turner Radio
40074 176th st
Lake Los Angeles CA 93591
661 264 3680
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I've sent many folks out here to him for repairs.
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ChrisAI6U
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On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 06:25:54AM -0400, Mike Duke, K5XU wrote:
> Yes, this battery is soldered into the radio.
>
> And, of course, Radio Shack stopped selling the replacement battery
> with the pig tails of wire attached to it years ago.
>
> An engineer at work replaced two of them for me about 3 years back.
>
> I took the old battery to Interstate Battery. A technician there
> soldered some leads onto similar sized button batteries for me,
> although technically, I don't think they are suppose to be heated like that.
>
> I have been told that there is enough room inside the HT to install a
> holder for a similar battery, but I have not asked anyone to do that
> for me yet. I will look further into that possibility the next time one
> of the batteries fails.
>
> When the lithium battery dies, you lose the memories each time the
> radio is turned off. Then you get a bunch of beeps and an error message
> each time it is turned on. Additionally, everything about the radio
> resets to its defaults each time as well.
>
> You can make it work, but re-programming even one channel every time
> you want to use it gets old in a hurry.
>
> --
> Mike Duke, K5XU
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