Can I permanently set my radio presets (ie. thru testmode)?

[Wrathernaut]

Small car battery would still be horrible to lug, as well as the whole full of acid thing.

 

My vote is still for a small 12v battery & charger, with quick connects tapped in to the radio constant 12v and ground wires.

 

Something like this:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templ ... estid=5770

would do the job for $30 (batt + charger)

[DJDisturbed]

Small car battery would still be horrible to lug, as well as the whole full of acid thing.

 

My vote is still for a small 12v battery & charger, with quick connects tapped in to the radio constant 12v and ground wires.

 

Something like this:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templ ... estid=5770

would do the job for $30 (batt + charger)

Thats thing is full of acid too, and easer for them to explode/leak (trust me, i have used ALOT of these type of batts with my HAM radios)

[ewickj]

you can get a motocycle battery that is 12 volt and they are very small

i have seen some that are less then five pounds

 

another idea i just thought of

instead of taking the unit inside your house you could find a place inside your car that no one would think to look

and you could just wire a plug to a long cable then plug it in and move the unit to your hiding place

 

for exaple you could hide it under your back seat and just wire in about a 8 foot wire harness

such as what you would use for a trailor plug

under your back seat

when you are ready to get out of your car

pull the radio out of the dash plug the back seat wire in

unplug from dash then move the unit under then back seat

it will still be connected to the car batt so you wont lose your presets

and you wont have to remove the unit from your car

[DJDisturbed]

or you can do like i did and take some airplane cable and attach that to the back of the unit, then attach that to metal parts in the dash. that way even if they try to take out the radio, they can take it far, it takes more then just wire cutters to cut through decent airplane cable (i even got nylon coated cable to protect from shorts if it were to come in contact with a wire it should not, got it from home depot, spent like $10 for it and the fasteners)