On Sun  1-Jun-1997  1:08a, Frank Glover@1:2613/150.0 wrote:
FG>    Has anyone else heard this? Does anyone know what the mod (I have no
FG> idea if it's [I hope] keyboard trickery, or if one must go in and alter
FG> components) actually is?
I heard the same thing from a friend of mine that is an RS employee here!
He is not a very technically inclined person, nor is he even interested in 
the radio hobby at all, and he knows nothing more than what was in some 
bulletin that they get every week or so.  I asked him to find out more, but 
he doesn't even know what to ask! shesh...
Here is the kind of info my friend is good for.  He told me that the radios 
he sold me (two HTX-204 Dual Banders) were "dangerous to use" and that Radio 
Shack was recalling them and they would gladly give me my money back.
Hmmmm turns out that they did NOT recall them, they just stopped selling them 
because they could easily be modified to transmit out of band (WAY out of 
band) and not only that ADI (the company that made the HTX-204 for RS) 
released a radio that looks just like the one they supplied for RS, and their 
model is 100 bucks cheaper and has 60 more memories than the HTX-204!
Anyway, since I won't find out anything more from my friend, I hope someone 
here will respond.
There is a place in Canada selling PRO-26's that are open from 25mhz-1300 
with no gaps.  They want 525 Canadian, which is somewhere around 420 bucks or 
so in 'real' money.  A little high but interesting.  I think I would rather 
sell mine and get an AOR or an old ICOM R1 if I am going to spend that much.
John
DR. John M. Hoyt / AKA Warren Peace  -  C-Link! International Coordinator
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