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XPR-6550 vs. XPR-7550

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Project25_MASTR

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Good grief! They (over)charge so much for a fancy RCA to SO239 adapter?



It's really like MMX to SMA but yes. Unless you want to fully disassemble the radio to access the service port, you need the long shaft.

It's designed for service, not for adapting to external antennas. One of the most common issues you find in the two-way industry is customers trying to save a buck or two and replace antennas themselves without doing proper research. So you often to find XPR6550 antennas on XPR7550 and XPR3500's, VHF antennas on UHF radios, pins missing from the male SMA connector (looking at Vertex specifically), etc. To he customer, antenna is an antenna…thy just want the radio working again. Clear labeling and a proprietary connector resolves a lot of those issues (but not all).


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