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these things are very power hungry, and you will find
that a lot of them don't even have battery capability because of this.

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Is this likely to be a long term problem? i.e. I assume that cmos is
already being used?
I'd certainly like a portable, but everything I've seen is about 5 times the
volume of a 25 year old and perfectly satisfactory 4-band "City Boy 100"
portable from Grundig. Runs nearly forever off 4 AA cells.

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