This radio system was put into service in FL without portable coverage. Mobile coverage is getting better, but is still spotty in some areas. If you are anywhere near a certain popular cell company tower ( hint-beep beep) it will go into a scan mode and you have no comms. This radio is an officer safety hazard and I do not recommend it. Talk to any state L/E in FL who has to use it and you will hear horror stories of lack of comms in critical situations. Batteries do not last an 8 hour day, much less 10 to 12 hour shifts.

The things are atleast prety durable. Bu coverage does suck out in the sticks. And dotn worry everytime they make it better....... it starts changing dispatch locations all on your own. I love being in south FL and hearing whats going on in St. Augustine. Good on those boring nights..... kinda sucks when i got things to say though.

Coverage is not that good does not get out in all situations. I have to come in the office and get a recharge sometimes. I believe this could be a LEO safety issue.

Durable but we are having a lot of problems with them here in florida

First, when you first turn the radio on it takes several seconds to powerup, and sometimes freezes up in this mode allowing no communications until you shut it off and turn it back on. Second, the Push-To-Talk buttons in ours had been recalled (apparently before we took delivery) and after exhausting every excuse the company finally replaced the PTT buttons, sometimes with other recalled PTT buttons...NICE! I think we are finally getting ones that work put in now. Third, while EDACS is the tried and true M/A-COM system, they have apparently gone to some new computer controller in the last couple of years that sucks. We went over twice our projected install time. Finally, as previously noted, the battery life sucks.

Lousy piece of equipment. Must keep it on in while in your car to avoid "down time" in getting it powered up and onto a channel that's open..a period of 2-3 seconds. The plastic outer case is cheap and cracks when worn in a metal belt clip. The crack in the outer shell cause a short circuit in the radio and no transmit capabilities. Stick with the motorola's.

This is our curent issued equipment operating in the 800 Mhz. frequency. There have been some problems with the shoulder mikes and, unless you keep it on, there is a significant lag time from powering it on to the time itt locates and connects with your operating chanel. I rely on my cell phone as much as this radio when I'm outside of my vehicle. One good thing, the battery DOES last a full 12 hour shift and then some.

this radio and the entire 800mhz system m/a com provided to our department is worthless. we had the motorola system before our city went with this, the cheapest bidder and it is awful. you never know when its going to work. dispatch will hear you and officers wont or officers will hear you and dispatch wont. strongly recommend that if your department is considering this system to go with motorola instead.