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Ok, I have one of these bad boys (firefox commando), and here's my take.
Upon opening package it seems to be a moderately quality product, the design is not too impressive. Cost is pretty much the lowest that I have seen, MSRP $35. My first game; it worked for about a minute at a time, I could niether recive nor transmit. I had to adjust the connector and fiddle with it for it to work, any slight movement and it would be out again. After much research, i confrimed that the radio I had a Motorola T600 series is fully compatible. I called Firefox and they emailed me the link to thier warrnty/repair form, I was directed to mail it to them and then they would fix it and send it back. I decided not to go through with it. Instead i took some electric tape and after getting the connector in 'just right' I quickly taped it in place. It now works without fail, as long as I don't remove the tape. It seems that the connector is too small to make a full connection, also the connector is silver in color which is yet another downside as we all know the gold plated ones cunduct better. I also noticed that it tends to slip down my neck when I sweat so i made a collar for it and taped the PTT to it. I am told that these firefox commandos are not really throat mics rather plain mics hidden in the recivers.
summary (rateing out of 10)
Cost: 10 cheap
Look: 5 not very milspec looking
performance: 9 (provided you can maintain the connection to the radio)
reliability: 3 for all the hastle it took to actually get it to work.
Hope this helps.
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