Mike,

That's exactly what he's experiencing. We hav a local battery company here 
in town but they wouldn't even tackle a Braille Lite battery replacement for 
me, so I doubt they'd touch the HT. I suppose they're afraid of being sued. 
Thanks for the info. 73. lou  WA3MIX
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: Radio Shack HT Internal Battery


> 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