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