Motorola radio saves officers life!

[KevinC]

"The suspect opened fire on the officers, hitting one. However, the officer was not injured as the bullet was stopped by the officer's radio."

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/swat-standoff-stafford-lawrence-lane-suspect-barricaded-sept-4

Should be an APX6000, unless they switched to the NEXT platform already.

 

[Enforcer52]

They failed to report radio was in a pocket on his bullet proof vest.

 

[Project25_MASTR]

Not the first time a Motorola radio has stopped a bullet. Jedi series have stories like this, HT600's have stories like this.

 

[KE4ZNR]

"The suspect opened fire on the officers, hitting one. However, the officer was not injured as the bullet was stopped by the officer's radio."

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/swat-standoff-stafford-lawrence-lane-suspect-barricaded-sept-4

Should be an APX6000, unless they switched to the NEXT platform already.

<stirring pot>We know it was a Motorola radio because a wussy, wimpy L3Harris or cheap JVCKenwood radio would have exploded into a million bits....

 

[mmckenna]

<stirring pot>We know it was a Motorola radio because a wussy, wimpy L3Harris or cheap JVCKenwood radio would have exploded into a million bits....

Exactly, and a $20 Baofeng would have stopped 5 rounds and the FM radio would have been playing cool jams the whole time.

 

[WB5UOM]

So, a Motorola radio does have a use
I'll keep my KENWOOD

 

[mbnv992]

I remember back in the days when BatLabs was booming, stories of the older radios like the HT600, Saber R, etc etc taking all kinds of abuse and still working. Don’t recall one ever being shot before though haha

 

[K9KLC]

Some made better "offensive" weapons than "defensive" ones...

 

[MTS2000des]

Back in the early 2000s, when people were shedding Genesis radios like the HT600, MT1K, etc, I still used them for hammy stuff. I once left a VHF HT600 outside when working on my CATV demarc (Charter cable were run by monkeys back then). I forgot about the radio. It laid outside in a Georgia winter with rain, sleet, snow, then spring. My landscaping crew found in that following July. Despite looking like it had been in the bottom of a mud pit, after changing the battery, it fired right up and worked. Dead on frequency and great audio. Wiped it down good with a few Clorox wipes, put it back on the shelf. The 1993 date code OEM battery did not survive the being left out that long though.

 

[mbnv992]

The best stories were the HT600’s that would fall 100’s of feet off a radio tower and survive. Or the Saber R radio that was dragged through a river bed on a canoe trip and survived.

 

[MTS2000des]

The APX radios are well made. 10 years ago at FRI in Atlanta, they had an APX7000XE submerged in a fish tank with a bowling ball dropped dead center onto the display, with an LED counter board counting the number of times it got slammed. An RSM was above water so you could use the radio submerged. I have yet to see any other radio vendor other than Tait do stuff like that.

 

[chrismol1]

I've seen a sales guy from way back in the day selling an APX and saying their previous line, the XTS5000, stopped a bullet and that had a plastic screen so the APX with the glass is that much better!

 

[FFPM571]

 

[mmckenna]

I think most of us have seen some radios that have gone through some sh*t before. Motorola does not have the market cornered on this, they are just better at marketing it.

 

[DeoVindice]

I think most of us have seen some radios that have gone through some sh*t before. Motorola does not have the market cornered on this, they are just better at marketing it.

Everyday occurrence in my line of work; mines and mills put radios through some horrible conditions. Worst I heard of was an XPR7550e that fell off a mechanic's truck and was then run over by a 300-ton haul truck. Needless to say he was issued a new portable a few weeks later.

We had a VP600 get launched down a raise last week and bounce off a pile of shot ore. Took a while to even find the scuff in the housing. I haven't blown a radio up yet and hope it stays that way, although I did blow up a Sonim XP5 videoing a development blast a couple years ago. It landed on a rock and cracked the screen, but the video was retrieved and the phone still worked.

 

[SCFDCOMM]

The APX radios are well made. 10 years ago at FRI in Atlanta, they had an APX7000XE submerged in a fish tank with a bowling ball dropped dead center onto the display, with an LED counter board counting the number of times it got slammed. An RSM was above water so you could use the radio submerged. I have yet to see any other radio vendor other than Tait do stuff like that.

Saw that with an XTS3000r years back

 

[Echo4Thirty]

"The suspect opened fire on the officers, hitting one. However, the officer was not injured as the bullet was stopped by the officer's radio."

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/swat-standoff-stafford-lawrence-lane-suspect-barricaded-sept-4

Should be an APX6000, unless they switched to the NEXT platform already.

You Motorola guys will do anything to justify the cost of the radios /s

 

[KevinC]

You Motorola guys will do anything to justify the cost of the radios /s

I could always tell my GE MPA story.

Officer involved in a vehicle chase, subject bailed out and officer began a foot chase. As he was exiting his vehicle his RSM cord got caught on something in his car. He kept pulling and it finally broke loose…the cast aluminum frame where the accessory connector was that is. Surprisingly the RSM survived just fine and after a frame replacement the MPA was put back in service.

That’s one heck of a RSM.

 

[KE4ZNR]

I think I have shared this before but under the Moto speaker is a crispy APX 6500 that was remote mounted in the trunk of a city police car that unfortunately caught fire. This brick still works just fine if you connect up a head and power source! We told Motorola we would be glad to give it to them all we ask is a replacement in return. They declined our request so it now sits in our radio shop mini-museum of past radio items.