Difference between xts 3000 and 3500

rhemti · Post by **rhemti** » Mon Jun 24, 2002 3:52 am

I am looking into buying an astro xts. What is the difference between the xts 3000 type 3 and the xts 3500 type 3.

10-95 · Post by **10-95** » Mon Jun 24, 2002 2:30 pm

Careful with those XTS 3500's, they had a big recall early in the first run, it was an issue with the batterys and the cahrgers or something. The batterys had juice coming out of the charging contacts on th batterys, good way to get blown up at a gas leak scene!

Frank

Twisted_Pear · Post by **Twisted_Pear** » Tue Jun 25, 2002 4:03 am

The 3500 only comes in VHF and UHF while the 3000 comes in VHF, UHF, and 800. The 3500 is supposed to be a better performer on VHF and UHF also.

Post by Pj » Tue Jun 25, 2002 9:52 am

I haven't been able to get a straight answer from any of the sells guys. They do say that the performance is suppose to be better then the 3000's, BUT not better enough to justify the extra expense. I do not know off the top of the head what the cost difference is, but they take the same accessories, but different RSS.

dvpman · Post by **dvpman** » Tue Jun 25, 2002 1:57 pm

My understanding is that the 3500 was built for the type 1 encryption module as well as standard des......

Mike

4RF · Post by **4RF** » Thu Jun 27, 2002 12:48 pm

Some many of these topics seem to go round and round...

Using the Batboard search feature I found:

http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.p ... highlight=

The last post is a pretty good summary.

Cheers