Motorola Submersible Portables

Jim1348 · Post by **Jim1348** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 6:00 am

Does anybody know where I can get a laundry list of ALL Motorola submersible portable transceivers?

sjxts3000 · Post by **sjxts3000** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 6:39 am

When you say "all", are you referring to only currently sold/supported units or all as in "historically all"?

Jim1348 · Post by **Jim1348** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 6:51 am

I am interested in both those currently offered and those sold in the past.

sjxts3000 · Post by **sjxts3000** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 7:13 am

I'm sure someone more authoritatively will chime in, but to the best of my knowledge (and I'm no dealer or expert), the top tier ones that are submersible would be:
APX7000XE
APX6000XE
APX6000R?
APX7000R?
XTS5000R
XTS3000R
Astro Saber R

That's all that *I* know of...I'm sure there are a lot more, but I've not ever dug back that far in the history.

RadioSouth · Post by **RadioSouth** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 12:29 pm

Going back more than a few years.....

MX300R (possibly the first of the submersible breed ?)
followed by the Saber analog sub.

RFguy · Post by **RFguy** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 12:55 pm

XPR6500/6550/6380/6580
EX560XLS

mikegilbert · Post by **mikegilbert** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 9:49 pm

To add to what's above:

SRX2200
XTS3500R
XTS2500i
Astro Saber I / II R
Saber I / II R
XPR7550is
GP344R
GP366R
GP644R
GP388R
GP688R

Jim1348 · Post by **Jim1348** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:45 am

Thank you!

mikegilbert · Post by **mikegilbert** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 3:03 pm

Forgot to add the MX-R, which is just a Saber 1R for the European market.

Here's a 4 meter (70mhz) version.

MTS2000des · Post by **MTS2000des** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 8:21 pm

XPR7550

jpu535 · Post by **jpu535** » Fri Jul 19, 2013 10:31 am

The XTS2500i is immersion rated which I believe is different from fully submersible, unless Motorola changed their definitions. Immersion rated is 1 meter of water for 30 minutes I believe. My department had one go into salt water at 10 feet overnight and when they fished it out the next day and took it apart it was not pretty. It did not survive. We had another dropped into a storm drain but was fished out after about an hour and it survived and has been working fine since.

mikegilbert · Post by **mikegilbert** » Fri Jul 19, 2013 12:48 pm

Also, the regular Saber (non-R) model 1 was available with a submersible rating.