Does that model have a switch in the battery compartment to disable charging when you’re using (non-rechargeable) alkaline batteries? Patrick Gauen

As newspaper reporter in scanner-equipped car, one night I heard increasingly frantic state police dispatchers worried for trooper who stopped responding to radio after a traffic stop. Help was a ways

We adopted Nextels at our newspaper for some years with great success, using them In place of our Motorola VHF radios that were on 173.something MHz. The system Allowed us to transmit to everybody or

I was a longtime police reporter and editor for two major daily newspapers in St, Louis and lived on the Illinois side of that metro area. I retired in 2017 as public safety editor of the St. Louis Po

If they’re still available, the Radio Shack amplified mobile speaker worked great for me, and remained reliable through years of use. I used an inline power switch on its 12v supply and it worked well