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Huck a Kenwood, Harris, Tait or other radio at the pavement and see how long it lasts.
https://youtu.be/Al8VwF1ytOM
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Hold my beer WATCH THIS
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Pretty Impressive--That thing took a Good Bounce Back Up to His Hand
mmckenna
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Impressive. I guess they learned their lesson from the Jedi line of radios that would eject batteries like a Pez dispenser.
MSS-Dave
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Good 'ol APX. About the only thing that can break those radios now is bad firmware load from Motorola Solutions LOL
W8RMH
Feed Provider Since 2012
I've seen the Motorola portables we used back in the 80s and 90s take a lot of abuse and still work.
Hmmm. Nice. But.... more sales gimmicks.
I want to see them drop it from several height ranges.
I'd like to know what fire agency fireman took a nail to chest and it hitting the display and where is this radio. I'd like to see the data specs and breakdown of it on what damage happened or if any internal besides the lcd.
I want to see them drop it from several height ranges.
I'd like to know what fire agency fireman took a nail to chest and it hitting the display and where is this radio. I'd like to see the data specs and breakdown of it on what damage happened or if any internal besides the lcd.
6000xe does the same thing.
Project25_MASTR
Millennial Graying OBT Guy
Still want to see third party explosive overpressure testing...
Me too. I'd like to see all the brand names side by side in it. I'd love to be one to get to break them and not feel bad.
Back when I was a volunteer fireman we were fighting a structure fire and my partner lost his Motorola Minitor pager somewhere inside the house. The next day he found it and it was just a plastic blob, but it still received!
Danny37
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Our old ht1000 if they fell on the butt of the radio, the batteries would eject.
So the XE models have a shock absorbant build into radio but the standard models don't?
So the XE models have a shock absorbant build into radio but the standard models don't?
Danny37
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FDNY still has a lot of xts3500 in service and are slowly phasing them out with the apx8000 XE. Those XTS radios have been through hell and back and are still going strong.
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I would be concerned about that lithium battery self destructing in the future.
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I think the term was "Tactically Relocate"
gesucks
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MTS2000des
5B2_BEE00 Czar
and now you know the history of all those "no tag" APX's on Fraudbay.
WPXS472
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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.
radioman2001
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I've seen the Motorola portables we used back in the 80s and 90s take a lot of abuse and still work.
Bring back the MX portable(not the "S" model), used by FDNY, NYPD and NYC EMS. I had the exact same portable for my entire time with NYC EMS. That's 3 tours a day 365 days a year times 14 years. Broke a lot of batteries and antenna's but never failed.
I've seen the Motorola portables we used back in the 80s and 90s take a lot of abuse and still work.
Bring back the MX portable(not the "S" model), used by FDNY, NYPD and NYC EMS. I had the exact same portable for my entire time with NYC EMS. That's 3 tours a day 365 days a year times 14 years. Broke a lot of batteries and antenna's but never failed.
An Oviedo Police officer accidently discharged their firearm at another officer, the radio (XTS 5000) took the hit and prevented injury to the officer. Seminole County, FL
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