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Anyone recognize this Motorola HT?

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These are being used at Yosemite NP. Sorry for the bad photo. I spent awhile searching the internet trying to identify it and finally gave up. I’m sure someone on here will recognize it immediately.

My observations are…

- it most closely resembles an XPR7550 if I had to pick a familiar model (but obviously not…side buttons are different shape and no Saber-esque “T” shape on top left…orange ring around PTT)

- the antenna looks like the wide-band VHF that I had on previous Jedi and XTS models

-looks more like a DMR radio rather than P25, based on the front buttons, but I believe YNP is presently 100% analog VHF so no help there. I would think YNP would select a radio that supports P25 just for interop use cases.

Alright. Someone please educate me.
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Looks like an APX900 to me. Although I feel like they have green around the ptt button and not orange. Haven't seen one in a while.
 
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The APX900s I’ve seen share the housing of an XPR7550e using different button icons and a green PTT ring instead of white.

This really seems to have a different form factor on the left side, and the bottom two side buttons are more square shape instead of round.
 
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It looks like a cross between an APX 4000XH and a 900. New model perhaps? I'm curious now!
 
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GTR8000 said:
It's a VX-P949 with Motorola badging instead of Vertex Standard. Essentially an APX 900 inside.
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Thanks for the help! Of course now that I’ve got the model it’s clear this product has been discussed at length here.
 
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