whoever wrote:
It's a sod when the lithium battery dies though :-(
You can't just replace the battery? I thought the battery only held
the memory?


Replacing the battery is a time consuming although not difficult task. The
first time took me 3 hours, the second about 30 mins. Still a PITA though :-(

The of course you have to reprogramme the search/scan bands - easy via a PC but
a bit of a grind if you have to do it via the front panel.
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Richard