• To anyone looking to acquire commercial radio programming software:

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I bought one and after 3 months it has started having problems that appear to be bad contacts to both batteries I have. Efforts to cure this have been unsuccessful. Anyone have any ideas or had this happen too?
 

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Do the contacts on the radio make solid connection with the battery? If I remember correctly,you can bend these contacts up slightly to make a tighter fit.
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Tried all that, along with coating all the contacts with a layer of solder... no luck. If I hold pressure on the battery/radio it works, but without pressure I have no contact.
 
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