We're almost there, almost. A durable, digital scanner is needed.

[ElroyJetson]

If you really wanted to go crazy and have a project you could sink your teeth into, you could always attempt to stuff the electronics from a portable scanner into the chassis and housing of, say, an APX 7000.

I think you'd need some ability to design some custom circuit boards to interface all the controls properly, but given how small the circuit board guts of a scanner are these days, I think it's actually a feasible concept.

 

[ratboy]

Your post reminds me of the old Regency HX1000 and HX1500 I used to have, which was also a die cast aluminum case and built much like their talkies. Pretty tank-like!

73,
n9zas

Unless you dropped it on a concrete floor. Even with the case on it, a drop (It's third) is what finally finished my HX-1000 off. It was a great radio. I fixed the first two drops with silver epoxy, but the third time, it was a goner. My PSR-500 in it's overbuilt leather case has survived many drops on the same floor, only the antenna got bent.

 

[maalox]

i really enjoy using the 396xt more than the hp1 scanning.