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Looking for a TOUGH radio
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 7:47 pm
by tuckerm
I have a school district I do some consulting work for. They have a Special Needs student that has been destroying some radios. They're looking for something indestructible yet around $150-$200. Anyone have any suggestions? Vertex??
Re: Looking for a TOUGH radio
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 8:23 pm
by C17LVFD
Astro Saber... depending on band and protocol they use.
Re: Looking for a TOUGH radio
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 9:01 pm
by tuckerm
I should have mentioned that...UHF mostly simplex with a repeater.
Re: Looking for a TOUGH radio
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 3:18 am
by C17LVFD
Astro Saber...
Re: Looking for a TOUGH radio
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 3:20 am
by NSPD
How about a $20 DN HT1000?
Double-edged sword here though. Most durable radios are bricks, which could also be a heavy projectile in this case.
Re: Looking for a TOUGH radio
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 9:31 am
by N4KVE
Jedi, Astro Saber, or XTS3000. GARY.
Re: Looking for a TOUGH radio
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 1:04 pm
by com501
Re: Looking for a TOUGH radio
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2017 9:58 am
by abbylind
MT 500 I had one that burned inside a Converta-com in a car fire. Used a crow bar to pry it out of the CVC. Wiped off some of the black char, turned it on and viola it worked!
Re: Looking for a TOUGH radio
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 3:58 pm
by KitN1MCC
The cp200d is tough little bugger
Re: Looking for a TOUGH radio
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 4:01 pm
by Bill_G
So, what kind of radios has this special needs student broken in the past?
Re: Looking for a TOUGH radio
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 6:01 pm
by spectragod
ht600, p200, mt500
Re: Looking for a TOUGH radio
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 4:57 pm
by motorola_otaku
Harris P7100. A seller out of Phoenix has a batch of ex-Arizona DPS UHF radios on Ebay for $49 each. And as an added bonus you can encrypt the school with AEGIS and drive the local scannerheads nuts.
Re: Looking for a TOUGH radio
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 10:27 pm
by tuckerm
Thanks for the suggestions...I'll let you know what we end up using and if it works.
Re: Looking for a TOUGH radio
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 2:00 pm
by Andy Corbin
Re: Looking for a TOUGH radio
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:34 am
by kato56
My opinion would opt for the WARIS (HT600, P200, MT100) radios would be my first choice, then non-keypad JEDI as a second. Sabers since they are slimmer than the others have a weak point on the battery slide which can snap off
Re: Looking for a TOUGH radio
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 5:37 pm
by chrismoll12
If anyone has ever disassembled these radios they'd find out there not much more rugged than a calculator. The soldier joints are extremely crap and the the most rugged thing about it, is that is uses metal screws to attach the front cover, thqats about it. In fact your more likely to rip off the speaker wire from the board on a simple disassembly. They literally look like a child assembled it in some sweatshop .Mine had solder all over the area in a mess where the speaker wires attached
