On 8/7/2012 4:02 PM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

The Daring Dufas wrote:

The Motorola and GE commercial hand-helds were designed so cops could
club you over the head with them then call for the ambulance. ^_^


I had a small police department ask me to fix a GE (PE66?) handheld
that fell off the top of a cruiser during a hot pursuit. The potmetal
case was so full of cracks that the entire radio could be twisted.
There was no way that piece of junk could be fixed. There were no new
cases, and no spare space inside to repair the thing. Most of the
antennas had lost the rubber covers from their being used as handles.


I was working on a lot of commercial and police radios back in the 70's
and the damn things were Steam Punk in nature, big and clunky compared
to what we have today but they were fairly tough like the old Western
Electric telephones that you could beat down a burglar with then call
the cops. ^_^

TDD