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my handheld CB addiction.

niceguy71

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You need help.

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it is an addiction .. I call it a hobby.. but it's really an addiction... and killing and recharging these batteries every couple months is a royal pain..... but i'm not spending hundreds of dollars and let them go bad..... so I have a ton of candles I put them in and they come on for 8 hours a night.... and it's amazing they last for about 3 months!!!!
 

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FPR1981

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One of the things that I wish that we had back in my younger days of handheld CBing was high-capacity rechargeables. I remember spending a damn fortune on those purple nickel cadmium rechargeable batteries from Radio Shack and having to trickle charge them inside the unit. I seem to recall those suckers were like $5 per 4-pack back in 1992 dollars. With tax and all, it was about $50 to outfit your handheld with rechargeables, and they weren't all that impressive from the longevity standpoint.

I've bought a ton of those Amazon 2.8-amp AA's and my old Realistics will run forever on them before I need to charge them.
 

niceguy71

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I’m glad of a resident expert per models, performance and regular use.
EXPERT???? I get all my info from you guys!!! And I only remember half of it.... And when I repeat it to someone else I get it all wrong... But I am going to make 100 walkie talkie range test videos on all my handheld someday and hopefully that will helpful to someone some day
 
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