We wanted to inflict the severest wear and tear on the Rexon RL328 we could think of, any abuse had to be controlled and able to be repeated. We decided to set our own heat, moisture, water, shock and vibration tests. You be the judge of how severe these tests are and how good the Rexon RL328 actually is. One previous reader commented that these tests could be called MIL Specification 810 "Z", we agree.

We took the same Rexon RL328 (serial Number 94090688) to the local sports centre, said sports centre having a state of the art health suite complete with sauna and steam room, both known to be extremely hot and extremely humid. We chose an early Saturday Night as we knew the sports centre would be quiet.

We placed the switched on Rexon RL328 about three feet directly above the main heater in the Sauna, quickly the RL328 became to hot to handle, we transmitted to it every few minutes, then using a towel transmitted from it for about 15 seconds on numerous occasions for about 40 to 50 minutes, this being the time we literally roasted the Rexon RL328, it did not fail once. As we wanted to feel how hot the chassis had became we attempted to take off the battery, we couldn't as the whole radio was so hot it had expanded to the point where the battery was stuck on, so we dropped tested the still scalding hot Rexon RL328 until the battery came of, which eventually it did. We dropped tested the super heated RL328 over twenty times from heights of between 1.3 and 3 meters on to solid floor tiles (we stopped counting after twenty times).

We then took the same RL328 into the steam room, placed it on the floor about six inches away from the super heated jet of steam that operates in many modern steam rooms, the front grill of the Rexon RL328 was facing the jet of steam. The jet of steam is so severe you dare not sit on the seat that is directly above the steam jet as it burns your legs. We boiled the Rexon RL328 for a further 40 to 50 minutes or so and carried out the same drop tests again as we did in the Sauna. The Rexon RL328 did not fail either in transmit or Receive nor did we break its case, lcd or switches, indeed the case showed remarkably little damage for such severe abuse. So we did both the sauna and the steam room tests all over again.

The RL328 was extremely hot, even after we had bounced it of the very hard tiled floor of the sauna / steam room area for the second time, to cool it off we put it into the needle point shower for about two minutes, speaker grill up to the shower. We literally hosed it down, the Rexon RL328 was still operational after almost four hours of the most severe deliberate abuse we could think of.

As we said before, don't try these test with any other two way radio, we have, they broke beyond repair and that was before we dropped them 270 feet down a Scottish mountain.  

We have two main phrases to describe the Rexon RL328, these are

RELIABLE EXCELLANCE IN TWO WAY RADIO, and

The difference between Evolution and REvolution is RExon.