You are right Butch but still a handy trick.  

I had a "portapack" for my Icom rig in those days, a mini Jell cell
about the size of the radio with a handle on top which worked quite
well.  Low power would run for quite a long time and if fully charged 3
hours on High power with a 30% duty cycle.  

Imagine the difficulties with TSA with a rig like that today.....! 

Thank you!

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>>> [log in to unmask] 8/31/2006 9:17 AM >>>
Well, that assumes the synthesized rig is on frequency.  I was lucky to

have one radio in those days.  I now have an ifr service monitor which

makes things very nice indeed.
73s
Butch Bussen
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