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I recently ran mine on a trip from florida to texas. With the radio in beacon TX mode, GPS on, Display on continuous, smaller capacity battery (original eq.) plugged in to the car power, Beacon tx every 3 mins, The radio got so hot that the display contrast became unstable to the point that the...

My first handheld was an Icom IC-2GAT. nice built like a brick, 6 or 7 watts as I recall. Sold it years ago. I currently have two VX-8r's and a Kenwood Th-22at. I love the Kenwood; simple, compact, easy to store channels in memory. Feels good in my hand. 6 watts output with a larger battery...

I've noticed that when the Radio starts making 'pops' and 'crackling' when I push a button the radio has been through a large pressure swing. By pulling the cap on either the EXT/DC or Ear connectors the pressure inside and outside can equalize and the "popping" goes away till next time (usually...

Fabulous! I'm in. How do you find these things out? Will you be posting here when you know how to get the update?

Mine also does this when either A or B is stopped on a received channel and the other (B or A) is scanning and crosses a band boundary. I haven't looked at the block diagram for the radio but it is probably a band switching artifact which causes the receiving channel to breifly 'stutter'. I...

display glare Look at the display with polarized sunglasses if you have them. There is a higher degree of strain in each of the corners which is causing the differences you see. I have had two of these and both have similar displays. Its probably fine.

Connecting tthe dots. I think its the HX471. It looks just like the VX-7R with some very slight case differences. Different buttons. The Hx471 takes a voice scrambler...hmmm...consumers marine has that item (#480226) for sale at about $96 would it be useful in a 7R? Would that be...