XTS5000 Radio Model I 380-420 MHz, H18QDC9PW5 N

[peteinsf]

Love that band split!

http://www.fbodaily.com/archive/2002/06 ... 089264.htm

Pete

[jnglmassiv]

Only thing more useless would be AM..

And why no exotic secure modules?

[Cam]

And Stubbys

[RocketNJ]

Actually the Range 1 XTS5000 is 380 to 470.

George

[peteinsf]

Hmm RocketNJ,

Just so I am clear on the XTS5K model numbers

Q=380-420?
R=380-470?
S=450-512?

Pete

[RocketNJ]

The Q is 380-470. There is also a 450 - 520 but I do not know the model number or if it has been released yet.

There is no 380-420 model.

George

[/\/\y 2 cents]

uhh...can you say head guy of a platoon or squad in iraq gets a 5 or 6 watt (if lucky enough to have Ast. Saber specs) while everybody else gets 1/2 watt iCom walmart talkies 80Mhz below FRS? I mean is 380Mhz new gov't spectrum for alot more than the just sorry ass FRS adaptions, or are there actually 380-390 Mhz ASTRO trunked systems all over the desert that these things are actually capaible of fully taking advantage of. It sounds like to me the boys in the signal corps have either run out of beat off material, or have incredible small penis's and are trying to compensate by ordering the most expensive gear to get their jolly's going. I think batlabs hould bid on the radio systems that eventually the USA will implement in iraq. I mean if we have it, they will have it. Unfourtunatley, we will probably fight world war III for what it took to get there, but if we sell a little radio gear and buy an AT&T longlines bunker to ride it out, I think we will all still be boyz
Steve

[Big Blue TO/\/\]

since you brought it up , /\/\y 2 cents,
Does anyone ON BATLABS have one of those old AT&T bunkers? I researched them a while back, and now can't drive past one without wondering if there are batlabbers down there

[1 Adam 12]

Actually there is a quite a bit down there below the 403 stuff. The radios fill the gap of what use to be a two radio function... 403-430 stuff for base ops, security, service, testing , contractors etc and the below 400 stuff for ops, nets etc. Most of this stuff is encrypted anyways.. also they will add the secure boards since it is type 1 stuff not the lower level type 3 stuff such as AES , DES OFB etc....

[Cam]

uhh...can you say head guy of a platoon or squad in iraq gets a 5 or 6 watt (if lucky enough to have Ast. Saber specs) while everybody else gets 1/2 watt iCom walmart talkies 80Mhz below FRS? I mean is 380Mhz new gov't spectrum for alot more than the just sorry ass FRS adaptions, or are there actually 380-390 Mhz ASTRO trunked systems all over the desert that these things are actually capaible of fully taking advantage of. It sounds like to me the boys in the signal corps have either run out of beat off material, or have incredible small penis's and are trying to compensate by ordering the most expensive gear to get their jolly's going. I think batlabs hould bid on the radio systems that eventually the USA will implement in iraq. I mean if we have it, they will have it. Unfourtunatley, we will probably fight world war III for what it took to get there, but if we sell a little radio gear and buy an AT&T longlines bunker to ride it out, I think we will all still be boyz
Steve

I would say that those will be used at bases and such and not in the way your talking about. Don't know though.

Cam

[/\/\y 2 cents]

I thought 380Mhz freq. area was made for the ISR (intra-squad radios) The icom FRS's or if your lucky and smart you will either pick/get the IC-F4E style ones that are also used extensively. ICOM won these contracts back in 99' I think, and not I see the, all the time in use when they show soldiers in Iraq. There is always one in every single vest pocket. I think it is motorola's way to get into the 380 arena just incase we stick around any hard installed (fixed/permanent) systems go in there for a military police type operation. Basically what a USA police department has but over in bagdad, and it is interoperable with the little crappy ones and existing bought ones for the soldiers. Lots of little things like this are an idea of things to come. They have 380 for a reason, and military bases are not looking to get off gov 130 and 160 gov split, nor 403-430Mhz...nobody i really interfering in that neighborhood. It's definitley for the military to compete with the racal/thales IMBTR units as an alternative.