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Reviving a thread. So as of 2024, anyone know what happened to produced SSE5000s that made it out of the factory? I've heard countless stories (mostly not vettable). From secret caches under the city stored away for 'emergencies', to they all went into a wood chipper, to political fights over budget money....

The most plausible story I heard was NYPD bailed on the contact and they never made the streets, or to the city in any numbers, beyond some brass getting demo models to evaluate. The second most plausible was that there is a maintained cache of them somewhere in the city hidden away, but seeing as I no one I know who worked 9/11 ever saw one at that incident makes me think that's likely a BS story. If they were going to be pulled out, what other time than that.

So as of today. I'm curious to entertain *legitimate* stories of historical the life cycle of that model (how many produced, how many made it into hands in NYC, where did they all go.)

Anyone have any factual insight?

If your off your meds and have a wild "Cowthief" conspiracy story of entertainment value... I suppose toss it in as well as long as it's *obvious* it's conspiracy and funny.

Goal of the post is to get to the factual history of the SSE 5000. If all you have is an Alex Jones take on things, take a deep breath and don't hit Post for a few weeks to give a chance for some legitimate people in-the-know to post first.
 
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clavo2 said:
Reviving a thread. So as of 2024, anyone know what happened to produced SSE5000s that made it out of the factory? I've heard countless stories (mostly not vettable). From secret caches under the city stored away for 'emergencies', to they all went into a wood chipper, to political fights over budget money....

The most plausible story I heard was NYPD bailed on the contact and they never made the streets, or to the city in any numbers, beyond some brass getting demo models to evaluate. The second most plausible was that there is a maintained cache of them somewhere in the city hidden away, but seeing as I no one I know who worked 9/11 ever saw one at that incident makes me think that's likely a BS story. If they were going to be pulled out, what other time than that.

So as of today. I'm curious to entertain *legitimate* stories of historical the life cycle of that model (how many produced, how many made it into hands in NYC, where did they all go.)

Anyone have any factual insight?

If your off your meds and have a wild "Cowthief" conspiracy story of entertainment value... I suppose toss it in as well as long as it's *obvious* it's conspiracy and funny.

Goal of the post is to get to the factual history of the SSE 5000. If all you have is an Alex Jones take on things, take a deep breath and don't hit Post for a few weeks to give a chance for some legitimate people in-the-know to post first.
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My command had a cache of SSE5000’s. They were assigned to the auxiliary unit. They were never used on patrol. The auxiliaries carried them. Used to make me laugh we had the POS vertex but the auxiliaries had the SSE’s.
 
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Don't forget they were used for the 2004 RNC. They definitely weren't around for the September 11 attack. There were brief periods of time where they were the THV loaner radios. I also believe Truck 3 & 4 used them for a short period of time. But yes, it seems their final fate was use by the Auxiliaries. Talk about overkill.
 
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Don't forget they were used for the 2004 RNC. They definitely weren't around for the September 11 attack. There were brief periods of time where they were the THV loaner radios. I also believe Truck 3 & 4 used them for a short period of time. But yes, it seems their final fate was use by the Auxiliaries. Talk about overkill.
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It If I remember correctly, all of ESU had them for a while. I only know because for a time during barricade/hostage jobs, the negotiators phone conversation would be rebroadcast on one of the TAC/ point to point channels. This was strictly used with the HNT throw phone. The radio we connected and used was an SSE with encryption enabled. All of ESU had this channel with encryption to monitor what was going on. It was a very short lived experiment.
 
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Wow. OK. So they *did* actually see some street time. Just the replies I was looking for. Thanks!
 
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I held two of these in my hand in the early 2000s at Dayton. Both were owned by (allegedly) FDNY guys. Neither one of them worked. YMMV.
 
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The only reason for the whole SSE project was the job didn’t want to buy all new accessories for a new batch of radios.
Then vertex swooped in with a below market price radio and accessories and the rest is history.
 
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The only reason for the whole SSE project was the job didn’t want to buy all new accessories for a new batch of radios.
Then vertex swooped in with a below market price radio and accessories and the rest is history.
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Same thing I heard. Put an MTS2000 in a saber form factor, please.
 
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Not to hijack the thread but if memory serves correct, the Si was only produced in 800mhz? I vaguely recall hearing of someone replacing the board from an MTS with vhf or uhf. Wish I’d gotten one back then just for a fun project.
 
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jruta said:
Not to hijack the thread but if memory serves correct, the Si was only produced in 800mhz? I vaguely recall hearing of someone replacing the board from an MTS with vhf or uhf. Wish I’d gotten one back then just for a fun project.
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I saw one many years ago. The guy put a low split UHF board in it.
 
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I think @mikegilbert has one of the Saber SI’s. Most were 800MHZ from what I remember.
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Sure do!

Here's a side-by-side with an Astro Saber

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