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Motorola Submersible Portables

Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 6:00 am
by Jim1348
Does anybody know where I can get a laundry list of ALL Motorola submersible portable transceivers?

Re: Motorola Submersible Portables

Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 6:39 am
by sjxts3000
When you say "all", are you referring to only currently sold/supported units or all as in "historically all"?

Motorola Submersible Portables

Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 6:51 am
by Jim1348
I am interested in both those currently offered and those sold in the past.

Re: Motorola Submersible Portables

Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 7:13 am
by sjxts3000
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.

Re: Motorola Submersible Portables

Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 12:29 pm
by RadioSouth
Going back more than a few years.....

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

Re: Motorola Submersible Portables

Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 12:55 pm
by RFguy
XPR6500/6550/6380/6580
EX560XLS

Re: Motorola Submersible Portables

Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 9:49 pm
by mikegilbert
To add to what's above:

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

Motorola Submersible Portables

Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:45 am
by Jim1348
Thank you!

Re: Motorola Submersible Portables

Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 3:03 pm
by mikegilbert
Forgot to add the MX-R, which is just a Saber 1R for the European market.

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

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Re: Motorola Submersible Portables

Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 8:21 pm
by MTS2000des
XPR7550

Re: Motorola Submersible Portables

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 10:31 am
by jpu535
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.

Re: Motorola Submersible Portables

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 12:48 pm
by mikegilbert
Also, the regular Saber (non-R) model 1 was available with a submersible rating.

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