Subj : Antenna
To   : JAMES BRADLEY
From : TOM WALKER
Date : Tue Jul 12 2005 08:36 am

JB> RJT>And now,  of course,  we've got *electronic* presets,
JB> RJT>usually with no back
JB> RJT>for the "memory" in there,  so if you have to
JB> RJT>disconnect the battery for so
JB> RJT>reason you have to put 'em in all over again.  This is progress?

JB> TW> That is somethoing that puzzles me. Seems like the presents could be
JB> TW> in NVRAM for only a modest price increase per radio.

JB>Couldn't one even delay the outage by a cap to trickle power?


Actualy many years back I owned a UNIDEN Scanner Radio that did just
they. They had a Capacitor whose charge would hold the Frequency Memory
Ram for about 30 days without the radio being powered up.
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