[Biggles]

The Motorola HT600 and 800's were very sturdily built. They were pretty much unbreakable apart from the extreme cases where one had been under the wheels of a vehicle. A few went missing also. I seem to remember doing a training course on new generation Burndept handportables that were launched around about the time when the emergency services went high band after the WARC band changes. Maybe a Burndept 600? This had a very robust outer casing made from die cast aluminium? There was also a Burndept mobile around the same time but we didn't have many. Most were Marconi 690's. There was a low band version of the 690 for the Fire Service also. We used a mix of PF85, later PFX, and of course the HT600E. I think I may have a couple of UHF PF2/PF70 handportables somewhere also. They were an odd beast, again with modules maybe. It's a long time ago.