I know people who claimed if you cut the green wire it would open up those
radios, but I know 2 people who cut it and it did absolutely nothing what
soever. It was a green wire or a blue one, I forget which so don't everyone
go trying it, but it was one of those 2 colors as I recall.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Dyer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: Radio Shack 404 hand held
> Hi Butch, 02AT and 202series are Pretty much the same,even both were
> rumored to have been made by Icom. there were at least, Two, 2, Noteable
> differences in the serieses.
> First, the 202 series, _______Will ________Not, under any circumstance,
> according to those who've tried and tried to modify them, either receive
> or
> transmit outside of the prescribed two meter or seventy CM bands, and I've
> _______never found info from ____Anyone Who's Successfully_ modified one
> of
> that series to do so_ *If you know of someone, **Please let me know_!
> Secondly, .
> , the 02AT series had no selector knob/(except for on the commercial
> version! Where There _Is One!_) I know that because in 1992, I obtained
> one of the 02at commercial versions,/(which I wasn't told was a commercial
> version,)from a ham friend, and it had one. I later had to sell
> it/(financial hard times, you know the drill, ) but later, remembering
> favorably, the programmable ten channels with WX band availability in a
> friendly box with selector knob, needing an HT, and assuming that all 02AT
> series radios were configured similarly, _With a selector knob,
> Went searching for one, and I had one given to me, also swapped for, and
> bought,02ats, in search of another one that had the selector knob, but, of
> course, didn't ever find one, for probably ten years, and as a result,
> began
> to wonder if I was losing it, in my ham radio mind? and was told by
> several
> folks who were "in the know" that "there was no such thing as an 02at with
> a
> selector knob"
> *But I knew that somewhere there was, I even got back in touch with the
> fellow from whom I'd gotten mine, and he said that it had been in fact an
> 02at, and of course, we _Both Knew That Ours Had____ Had___ a selector
> knob!!
> In fact, I called radio stores, asked questions on ham forums, and was
> told
> again and again by many many _experts? /Who meant well, but just hadn't
> heard of or seen the little known truth, that was _____Finally revealed to
> me when I ran across a fellow who knew about the commercial version and
> reassured me that I ___Wasn't losing it in a ham radio fog, about which
> I'd
> really begun to wonder!
> ***There ***Are, 02at&04AT radios that ***Do, *Have, *Selector *Knobs!
> *But
> *Only *The *Commercial *Versions *Are *Thus *Fitted!!!!!! And some day I
> may find another one. HTH, Danny.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 9:57 AM
> Subject: Re: Radio Shack 404 hand held
>
>
>> Wasn't that basically the same as the icom o 2 a t?
>> 73
>> Butch Bussen
>> wa0vjr
>> open Node 3148
>> Las Vegas
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010,
>> John Miller wrote:
>>
>>> I think the 202 instructions are on the www.icanworkthisthing.com site
>>> and
>>> they're the same programming and all, if not I have that stuff here so
>>> email
>>> me off list and I'll shoot it your way gladly. I had both at one point
>>> and
>>> really, if you can use one, you can use both.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Junior Lolley" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 7:33 AM
>>> Subject: Radio Shack 404 hand held
>>>
>>>
>>>> I just had a radio shack 404 uhf hand held given to me.
>>>> It looks like brand new and comes on when I turn on the power.
>>>> I was wondering if anyone has any text files on how to program the
>>>> freqs,
>>>> tones and etc in this radio.
>>>> I appreciate any help.
>>>> I already have the 202 and lost the programming instructions.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Junior Lolley KG4ITD Liberty County E. C.
>>>
>>>
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