[Icom] ICOM has some competition...

[Chris BONDE]

Has anyone tried those battery boasters or car starters?  It has a built in 
charger, sometimes a flashlight, has big cables for jump starting a car, 
has extra outlets for running cell phones, lap tops etc (as by the 
ads)  One of the local hames used one and had descent performance for field 
day.  I am wondering about mt topping etc.

Chris opr VE7HCB


At 09:37 AM 2003-06-13 -0400, you wrote:
>Reminds me of my first HT--Icom's venerable IC2AT.
>Since then I've used ICOM, Yaesu, and Kenwood HTs with no problems except 
>battery ones.
>Of course, with my current Kenwood THF6A, I spend most of my 
>walking/hiking/biking time listening
>to my local NPR station or scanning the public service bands.
>Thanks for the post and for the interesting, enlightening group. . .  I'm 
>liking my new 706MK2G more and more.
>BTW, can anyone suggest a good battery to use as emergency power for my 
>706?  A friend suggested I buy
>a deep discharge marine battery and use a slow trickle charger.
>
>Thanks es 73,