[TenTec] A Fun Day with Ham Radio, and a Question about Portable Operating

[Mike Bryce]

Don't forget about Icom's 703. Don't recall the current drain, but it too is designed to operate within specs on a 9 volt battery (The r/c car battery not the transistor battery)


Mike, WB8VGE
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On Apr 13, 2013, at 12:31 PM, WA4VEC at aol.com wrote:

> The K2 can be set up to use as little as 120 - 150 mA on receive and in  
> normal mode it draws 180 -250 mA.  It also works with as low as 9  volts input.
> 
> In a message dated 4/13/2013 12:04:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> Rick at DJ0IP.de writes:
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> What other rigs are there out there that work  80/40/20/15/10 and possibly 
> even 160, yet require only a couple hundred mA on  RX?
> I only know of the KX3, with its 250mA.
> 
> I'm sure there are loads  of rigs with only a couple of bands, but I don't 
> know of any other all band  rigs like that.
> 
> 73
> Rick,  DJ0IP
> 
> 
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