I own a XPR 5550 that I use in my car for amateur radio DMR and have a paid subscription to the Motorola CPS. My question is, what is the latest firmware that hams that use Motorola's are using for their radios? I have heard it said before, that hams using Motorola radios are not encouraged to go newer than firmware 2.09.10. Is that still true?
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XPR 5550 Firmware Question
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actually past 2.10 you need to have a service agreement to update the firmware hence thats why we recommend 2.09 and cps16
Out of curiosity does this apply to APX as well or is this just a TRBO thing?
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@n3obl is correct, although depending on the manufacturing date your 5550 may already be eligible.
Before the M2020.02 that was no benefit to a Ham user to go beyond R02.09.n in my opinion, but with the implementation of Talker Alias and Brandmaster / C-Bridge adoption of that feature there may now be a justification depending on your use case and community decisions on concurrency. .
I meant that there is nothing physically stopping a ham from upgrading to 2.10. Nothing preventing them from upgrading if they want to. But as a word of the wise, dont upgrade if you dont have to.
The APX series has not started with subscriber update management yet. Its eventually coming down the pike in a later firmware etc..
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