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Part 1 of 4
(The following was transcribed from a taped interview
conducted by Hap Holly/KC9RP. As RAIN programming is not
copyrighted, you're welcome to reproduce this article in its
entirety or in instalments for your radio club newsletter,
bulletin, or for your own use. If you reprint this article,
please credit Hap Holly/KC9RP as being the author.
RAIN FOCUS
RADIO SHACK INTRODUCES TWO METER HANDHELD
by Hap Holly/KC9RP
On August 12, Radio Shack introduced a fully
synthesized 12-memory handheld for the two-meter amateur
market. It is scheduled for nationwide distribution in all
stores for late September. According to Ed Juge/W5TOO,
Director of Market Planning for Radio Shack out of Fort
Worth, Texas, "the HTX202 is a 2-meter ONLY radio. It has
12 independently programmable memory channels, a calling
channel and 3 priority channels, 5 watt output on 12 volts
DC with 1 watt on the low-power setting, and has a battery
saver. It uses the same type of battery you find on the
Icom IC32AT series of handhelds. It isn't a big unit. If
you put an alkaline pack on it and another on the Icom
ICW2A, (which I own) the radios are within 1/16th of an inch
of being the same height. At their widest point, there may
be a quarter of an inch difference."
"The HTX202 is not a stripped down radio for its
$259.95 price tag," says Juge. "It's one of two handhelds
on the market today that uses true FM, not phase modulation.
It comes with separately programmable encode and decode PL
tone boards. Of course there's the touchtone pad for DTMF
dialing, but also a selective paging feature using a five-
digit personalized paging code programmed into the radio via
the tone pad. In the autopatch memory dialer, you can store
five autopatch codes having up to 15 digits each, or DTMF
paging codes."
"The handheld will scan for an active or vacant
channel. It scans in steps of 5, 10, 20, 25, 50 or 100 KHz.
In addition there are upper and lower scan limits."
According to Juge, "it scans pretty quick. It's like 25
channels per second--about the same speed as our scannes
hichhavewhat cal HyerScn. You an slecrthe
priritychanel san iteral to scan every 4, 8, 12, or 16
seconds." Juge added, "the resume scan can be set to happen
10 seconds after it stops, stay on the channel as long as a
carrier is there, or stay on a channel once it finds a
carrier."
Continued in part 2 of 4