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Quote:>I am concerned about the longevity of my Icom 271/471 internal batteries.
>These have an unknown age. I have been told that these can be replaced by
>first temporarily connecting a new battery in parallel with the existing one,
>removing the old battery, fitting a new one, and finally disconnecting the
>temporary one. Has anyone had any experience with this maneuver ? Sounds
>scary, but theory says it should be ok.....

>John Mcleod N6RCD.

Sunday I turned on the trusty old Icom 745 and all the display lights came
on at the same time and it beeped once and nothing worked. Uh-oh.

Shipped it to Icom yesterday. Had to pay $35 at the package store for box,
peanuts, packing and shipping (ouch!). I don't know Icom's hourly rate, and
there will be postage back. Bummer.
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Quote:>>I am concerned about the longevity of my Icom 271/471 internal batteries.
>>These have an unknown age. I have been told that these can be replaced by
>>first temporarily connecting a new battery in parallel with the existing one,
>>removing the old battery, fitting a new one, and finally disconnecting the
>>temporary one. Has anyone had any experience with this maneuver ? Sounds
>>scary, but theory says it should be ok.....

>>John Mcleod N6RCD.

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>>>John Mcleod N6RCD.
>A company called Willco Electronics sells a memory board that
>has the important data stored in ROM.  When the battery fails,
>the radio won't die, you just lose the memories.  The board
>also increases the frequency limits and has 1024 memories.

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