I luv these radios. That being said i did not have one until recently . I have wanted one for years and finally found one in the shape I wanted. Very cool radios and this past weekend I took it out and did a range test which it performed well. check it out here and let me know if you have any experience with these classis.
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A Classic, the Midland 77-861 Portable
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I have the 23 channel version of it, 13-861. Found a replacement battery tray for it on ebay. I couldn't find the right size rivets to attach it like the original so used some flathead screws and put the nuts for them on top in the battery tray. In other words the screw heads are inside the leather pouch for the radio. I had to lightly trim the inside of the pouch where the screw heads seated with a Dremel tool to countersink the leather so the screw heads would be very flush or slightly sunk into the leather so as not to scratch the radio. The nuts in the battery tray give just enough clearance for the batteries to sit alongside them.
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