HI folks, I won one of these at a hamfest a couple of weeks ago and just received it in the mail. I see it takes AA cells. No charger with it. IIRC it holds 8 aa cells. I'm thinking of putting alkalines in it for right now and making it my xyl's main 2m portable. Anybody tell me anything about the radio? Like to know what kind of charger it needs etc. Also how easy to program? wE got the instructions with it, but until the xyl has her catarract surgery her eyes aren't any better than mine and that's awfully smalll print. 73 de nf5b Richard Webb Electric Spider Productions "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --- Benjamin Franklin, NOvember 1755 from the Historical review of Pennsylvania