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Michael Black[_2_] · September 13th 16, 03:05 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.equipment

On Sun, 11 Sep 2016, wrote:

On Sunday, January 7, 1996 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, J Scott Wilson wrote:
A non-modemed friend has the following query:

I am looking for modification information and procedures for expanded RX
and TX for the Radio Shack Realistic HTX 202 2 meter HT.Does anyone have
or know the location of such information??

I will pass on any replies.

Scott Wilson
406 Lambert Street
Whitehorse YT
Canada Y1A 1Z7
(403) 668-4518 (h)
(403) 668-3736 (fax)

if you send me your e mail i will send you the info you are looking for
my email is thanks hope to here from you

If you'd read the full thread from 20 years ago, you'd have known that
others gave sufficient information.

The 202 does not have a mod for extending the frequency range. Someone
even said that in the thread 20 years ago. Reading elsewhere, Radio Shack
bought the design for the IC-02AT from Icom, but then could do whatever it
wanted, and they worried about out of band use, so they made sure it
couldn't easily be modified.

Apparently there was a change of heart later, beacause the Radio Shack
HXT-212, note "1" instead of the "0", does have diode to snip to allow
wider range,

So either you still buy into the myth that the 202 could be extended, even
two decades later, or you didn't even read the original post properly and
think they are talking about the 212 rather than the 202.

There usually is no good reason to reply to an old thread.

Michael