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Did the M-PA ship with a cover for the universal device connector? I hate leaving the contacts exposed when I don't have a speaker-mike attached.

Pat

Does anyone have a decoding chart or whatever for Icom battery packs? I have one here with what I believe is a datecode of GGD-A and I was just curious what that decoded to.

Thanks,
Pat

We had some RPV516A radios donated to us and they came with BCRP chargers. The chargers appear to be conditioning chargers, but I can't figure out how to get that feature to work. When I put a radio in the charger and press the button the top LED just flashes red rapidly. Anyone have any documentati...

Thanks for the info

Pat

I have some old RSP500s I'm trying to locate replacement battery packs for. I've done some searches on a few battery sites to no avail. Anyone know of a company that makes replacement packs for these radios?

Pat

A few days ago I had the battery pack off one of our IC-H16s, and when I slid the pack back on it sparked a little bit. Now the radio doesn't power up. What I'm wondering is whether there's a fuse or something like that inside, or is the radio pretty much screwed? It's not a big loss if it is, but i...

I know for a fact that the TK-370G can be modifed to be field programmable. I would assume the TK-280/380 and TK-290/390 could be modified in the same way.

Pat

Anybody know what the "take over" function on this repeater does?

Thanks,

Pat