No Relatively easy job. Just watch where your soldering irons goes. At 01:53 PM 7/3/03 +0000, you wrote: >When replacing the battery in the IC-735 HF Transceiver, is a backup voltage >required when removing the old battery so the "brains" don't get erased ala >the Icom 745/751/751A rigs? Jack Hartley K4WSB ARRL - QCWA - OOTC http://www.ultimatehat.com 10% discount to fellow Hams Put your call on the order