Buy a new manufacture's battery, if it has much age it probably wont hold a charge very well, has been my experience.

Download CHIRP, its free... and get a cable to program it with... doing it from the keyboard can be painful.


https://www.google.com/search?q=FT-6...q=FT-60R+chirp

Its a good radio.

HTH,
EB

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https://www.valley-ent.com/store/ind...&search=ft-60r

http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Download