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Radio Shack HTX-202:




These radios are a classic. The original design comes from the Icom IC-02, a thumb-wheel tuning HT that you
had to add a PL tone board to. It was greatly upgraded to the IC-02/AT, giving it a keypad, LCD display,
and 12 memories. (plus 2 priority and a call) They sold the design to Archer/Realistic/Radio Shack, who
re-branded it the HTX-202. (they also created a UHF variant, the HTX-212) The battery packs and other misc
accessories have been in production for several decades now, making them widely available. AA (6,8,10,12) and
NiMH/LiIO battery packs are still available today. The radio used a unique TO-220 power amplifier IC that's
out of production and hard to find NOS, so when that goes, you pretty much lose TX forever.

Although they have surface mount components inside, they remain pretty easy to service, and the rugged design
lets them shrug off a beating. I have a large number of them programmed up for fox-hunting by non-hams, where
I have disabled TX in the menu.


HTX-202 schematics

manuals

mods

my HTX-202s.txt

repairs

replacement parts.txt

resetting or how to fix Er1.txt



last updated 08/20/2023 at 12:28:21