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Originally Posted by John G8MWF
It was only by chance that I found out one of the people at work is a retired police office who used to train officers in the use of this type of radio equipment.
The set he remembers best was the Storno - 'useless radio but due to its heavy metal case was very useful in a punch up!'
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Reminds me of a comment from when I contracted in Dallas/Fort-Worth and one of their ex-police types said of a 1970s Motorola walkie-talkie that it was "Tough enough to beat a mugger unconscious and it still worked so you could use it to call for backup".
[The radio-in-question worked well on the 144-148MHz amateur band and a lot of the cops in the area had an 'unofficial' position on their channel-select switch to they could listen on the local repeater]