CouesWhitetail Report post Posted June 8, 2009 Hey All, Thought you might get a kick out of this story..... Last year while doing owl surveys on the San Carlos I lost a radio on a steep, thick slope. I searched for it for quite awhile, backtracking all over. Finally I gave up and returned to camp without the radio....none too happy. So, since I needed radios, I bought some upgraded Motorolas. But some of you might remember the awful performance of those radios on my deer hunt with Scott last year. Anyway, I took those radios back for a refund and ever since have been without radios (except for 1 from the original pair that I didn't lose). Well last week, my husband and I were hiking in the same steep area and he manages to find the radio that I lost a year before! He wasn't even with me when I lost it and so he didn't know where to look for it. And I wasn't with him when he found it since I was covering the other side of the canyon. So when we get home, I put in new batteries and the radio perks right up! Seems to work fine despite laying on the ground through all the monsoons and being buried in snow for months. It has several rodent chew marks but none are really bad and now I actually have a pair of working radios! I couldn't believe he actually found it!! What are the odds?? and how likely is it that it would not suffer some electrical problem after laying out in the weather for a year? Yippee!!! Nice to have my gear back! Thanks Husband!! Amanda Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
az4life Report post Posted June 8, 2009 Congratulations, That is a cool story Amanda. I wonder how many others have lost and found thier own items like that. I did that with a single glove one year and found it the next, but that's about all for me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elkaholic Report post Posted June 8, 2009 hello - hey Amanda - send the stroy to the manufactors - they might send you a new set - (right) - Sometimes you just get lucky - guess it was your turn! pretty cool !- gary Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CouesWhitetail Report post Posted June 8, 2009 For those wondering it was a motorola talkabout T5320. Nothing fancy, this pair has worked fine for me over the years, but when I lost one, I figured I would upgrade. The upgrade was supposed to have longer range, but that new pair wouldn't even get clear reception when I was only 50 yards away from my hunting partner. Amanda Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yotebuster Report post Posted June 8, 2009 I did the same thing a couple years ago, upgraded from my old 2 mile ones (which would often go 3 or 4 miles in flat country) to the new 15 mile motorolas, figuring I should be able to get 10 miles at least out of them... WRONG... they were worse then my old ones... if it wasn't for the fact that I dropped one of my old ones down a ice fishing hole, I'd still be using them... they don't do much good with only one though, unless you yell into them really loud Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billrquimby Report post Posted June 9, 2009 I agree with elkoholic: Let the people at Motorola know their product "takes a licking and keeps on ticking." Bill Quimby Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
