I may be making too much of this, but this little HT is the greatest -
EXCEPT for one thing. It has left me with a dead battery too darn
many times, just when it was very undesirable. If I'm involved in
doing something else, and waiting on someone to call me, and the
battery chooses then to go dead - I never know I missed the call.

That's just one example. It goes dead right in the middle of my
transmissions sometimes, WITHOUT WARNING. I find myself with a dead
radio when I let up the transmit button, and never know how much of
the transmission got sent. Then I have to dash around looking for a
charged battery to put in, and hope the guy I was talking with is
still there.

With the ENORMOUS number of features this radio came with, of which I
only use a small percentage, surely they could have included a feature
to send an audible set of beeps when it's battery is near the end.

Has anyone else had this reaction? Surely I'm not the only one with
this beef. More important, has anyone out there figured out how to
modify it to allow some audible beeps at low battery? Surely Yaesu
can do this if they want to, all my portable telephones have such a
feature, telling you when its batteries are about to fail. How about
it - Yaesu?

73,

Mac, W4PFZ