Its a funny thing how some radios will take a tremendous beating, while others won't. Back in a previous life, when I worked for Uncle Sam, we got in a whole slew of Saber 1s with DES XL. VHF low split. One day, I sat one down and it fell over. Dead. I thought:"What a piece of crap." A while later, a fellow worker dropped one about 20 feet from an overhead crane onto concrete and all it did was scuff the battery a little. There was something funny about those Sabers. The Motorola rep told us that if we had one go bad to call him to come get it. Under no circumstances were we to send one back to Motorlola.