[ICOM] internal battery HT

[John Geiger]

And I believe the HTX202 was based on the Icom O2AT design, which came out in the mid 80s.

73s John AA5JG

--- On Wed, 4/7/10, Gary Fiber <gfiber at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Gary Fiber <gfiber at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [ICOM] internal battery HT
> To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 11:09 PM
> Actually Icom had Nothing to do with
> the HTX-202. It was made for Radio 
> Shack by Maxon.
>   Radio Shack told Maxon to choose some common
> accessory and they picked 
> on Icom's design. There was no licensing by Icom for
> anything with that 
> hand held.
> There were a lot of them sold though by Radio shack and
> they seem to be 
> a good product.
> Seems to me there is a forum on Yahoo about the HTX series
> products 
> should you run into a stumbling block where to get the
> replacement battery..
> Its likely a solder in type with spot welded solder tabs on
> it.
> 
> Gary K8IZ
> 
> 
> On 4/7/2010 2:55 PM, arttravels wrote:
> > I need to replace the internal button battery in one
> of my HT's
> >
> > The HT is a Realistic model HTX202 sold by Radio
> Shack, same model as
> > the ICOM of the early 90's.
> >
> > Any help on the voltage and number of the battery or
> replacement will be
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Art WB9JKZ
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