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Chicago Fire tv show apx?

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a417

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Is green tape good will it <snip>e cause there was a police officer right behind him and he did absolutely nothing
jfc, 'green tape' will do nothing. If you are walking at night and hoping that glow in the dark tape will identify you, you will be a hood ornament and a tragic accident report. Don't spend money on a nice scanner and then Walmart tape if you don't live long enough to use it. Read something like this, or this gem from 1984 (which ironically doesn't say 'buy a bright colored radio'), buy an ANSI certified vest - or other outdoor apparel designed to keep you alive.
 
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Is green tape good will it damage the sds100 I was thinking of getting glow in the dark tape for when I walk with it and yes it gonna be in a holster on the firefighter radio strap that strap I got the reflected belt but I want to be brighter if that makes sense especially when I have the scanner in my holder behind my back on my ass basically like you see in Chicago Fire I might even just get a Motorola xe500 mic the green one and rubber band it to the sds100 so that way I’m more visible even with the belt I still almost gotten ran over just last week I had the belt on and this tow truck was so close to the bicycle lane I was walking on that I could have hit is flatbed I should have cause there was a police officer right behind him and he did absolutely nothing

You walk around in public with a scanner blaring in a neon green firefighter strap holster for pedestrian visibility? I understand you may be young and all but the neon stuff doesn't always save the real deal guys when its better to have better situational awareness and distance yourself from threats that could harm you, sometimes all the lights and reflective stuff in the world doesn't help the real deal guys if they aren't paying attention to when someone who also isn't paying attention comes barreling thru
 

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Don't rubberbanded a mic to or paint your scanner. Go back and read the responses in the other thread you started. Don't be 'that guy'.

 
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Okay about a year or 2 ago Motorola posted on either Facebook or some platform. That they were going to give the TV show Chicago fire APX 8000XE to use
 

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I’m not gonna fight with y’all on this believe me or don’t but I put wires that connects the xts speaker mic into the sds100 motherboard and I hear things thru tho speaker mic don’t ask how I did it cause it took me long asf to figure it out and I’m gonna do the same on the sds100 with the xe500
 

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I’m not gonna fight with y’all on this believe me or don’t but I put wires that connects the xts speaker mic into the sds100 motherboard and I hear things thru tho speaker mic don’t ask how I did it cause it took me long asf to figure it out and I’m gonna do the same on the sds100 with the xe500
I just can’t talk on it
 

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So you are gonna cut up a $600 scanner just so you can jerry rig a $300 speaker mic to it all for the sake of "it looks cool"?
 

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Lol I dunno but to the OP, if you’re still reading this (and are for real) I’d much sooner cut the connector off the mic, find the speaker wires and solder a plug to it- I’m sure your scanner has an earphone jack. Hacking up an expensive scanners board ain’t gonna end well.
 

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Lol I dunno but to the OP, if you’re still reading this (and are for real) I’d much sooner cut the connector off the mic, find the speaker wires and solder a plug to it- I’m sure your scanner has an earphone jack. Hacking up an expensive scanners board ain’t gonna end well.
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