[ICOM] HT battery

[Gary Fiber]

Yes at the time Maxon and Radio Shack were trying to design around some 
popular accessories as they did not want to produce their own.
I used to know a person at Radio Shack, Ft Worth, TX and he told me the 
story about the HTX-202..
I am unsure if the battery works, but the mounting was very similar.The 
old 2 / 02 series battery mounting was pretty stout.
We did check about the HTX-202 with he factory since Icom did private 
label the H and U-16 to Midland between 1986 - 1988 as the 70-154 and 
70-254 respectively.
But the factory also removed the front panel programming from those so 
you had to use an external programmer for those " Midlands" Since they 
were a Midland product, Icom America did not touch them for anything.
Icom at one time did have a 800 MHz trunking handheld. It did not last 
long as an Icom product since we did not license a LTR controller nor 
have a 800 MHz repeater system..
  EF Johnson actually went to Icom and had them make that product as a 
EF Johnson product. It was unique at the time since it supported " Over 
the Air" programming.
  Icom currently has VHF and UHF trunking products. And they are working 
on very narrow band FM using a 6,25 KHz channel spacing on Land Mobile 
transceivers which is FCC mandated..
This means Digital modulation as the old analog way of setting it to 
5KHz will not work with such narrow channel spacing I don't think we 
will see that set up in amateur products though, there are some trade offs
going so narrow at least trying to do it conventionally not digitally.

Gary K8IZ


On 4/7/2010 11:22 PM, arttravels wrote:
> Thanks to all that gave me info on the Radio Shack HT battery
> replacement.  The internal battery is a CR 2032 with solder tabs, but
> can be changed to one without tabs.Thanks to Jack who gave me an article
> on how to make the change and replace the battery.
>
> I also found out that supposedly ICOM had nothing to do with the design
> of the HT, but the battery pack is the same as an ICOM as is the desk
> top BC30 desk charger..
>
> Anyway, thanks to all for your help
>
> Art WB9JKZ
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Gary Fiber K8IZ
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