Started with picking up a lot of Motorola radios for cheap that included an HT440 and found another listing on eBay for an Astro Tool, this thing cost more than the radios on eBay.
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Removed the radios circuit board, will be making my own to control the LED's
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LED's mounted to the front panel.
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Matting glued to edge of radio.
Matting glued to front cover with the LED's, the replacement
speaker grill will come last still need some thought on that.
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The Astro Tool handle antenna mounted on the radio
with the secondary antenna fabricated from GAK on hand.
Here is something that could be modified and used in place of Astro Tool.
It's an oversized Switchcraft 1/4" plug, shown compared with their
standard sized 1/4" plug and the installed Astro Tool handle.