gman1971
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Well... I got one just to test the waters, that was 3 weeks ago..... and now I am on my 7th one: one for each member of the family. Currently in the process of ditching, errr... selling, or donating every other portable radio I owned prior. That is how good these things are. The XPR5550e mobile is also on another league....
While it has some "shortcomings", its single band, no talker alias, the antenna is not SMA, etc... none of those issues has been a problem for me. In fact, even with the stubby 3.75 inch antenna on UHF I am able to talk simplex crystal clear 2 miles out on just 1 watt, in suburban hilly terrain. None of my other radios has ever achieved that.
Radios should have range measured in tens of miles, not tenths of a mile and pack a lot of fancy features to make up for crap range... b/c how good are those fancy functions if the radios can't communicate when you need them the most?
If you need more info, hit me on PM.
PS. I don't work for Motorola.
PS.2. Avoid Anytone at all costs: those radios are utter garbage for anything critical, sans hitting local repeaters for a quick chat. They freeze up, repeatedly, and without warning, they are buggy as heck, features semi-work, plus receivers are far worse, as measured, than what the Gen2 MotoTRBO radios have (XPR7550e, XPR5550e SL7550e)... With Anytone you'll be an eternal beta-tester for features that will never work right. Audio quality sucks compared to the XPR7550e, I don't think I've heard any other digital radio that sounds as good as the XPR7550e with the right profile. Oh, why bash anytone? well, I am the unlucky owner of an AT-578 (collecting dust) x2 Alinco MD5 and I've owned x2 AT-878 (which sucked real bad so I returned them back to Amazon).. Trust me, don't make the same mistakes I made, mislead by post stating "good entry level dmr nonsense" don't waste your money on a piece of crap. Buy once, cry once, or "don't be the guy who has enough money to do things wrong many times, be the guy who has the money to do it right, once"
PS.3 Don't settle for the XPR7550 (non e). There is a significant RX performance improvement between the two radios.
G.
While it has some "shortcomings", its single band, no talker alias, the antenna is not SMA, etc... none of those issues has been a problem for me. In fact, even with the stubby 3.75 inch antenna on UHF I am able to talk simplex crystal clear 2 miles out on just 1 watt, in suburban hilly terrain. None of my other radios has ever achieved that.
Radios should have range measured in tens of miles, not tenths of a mile and pack a lot of fancy features to make up for crap range... b/c how good are those fancy functions if the radios can't communicate when you need them the most?
If you need more info, hit me on PM.
PS. I don't work for Motorola.
PS.2. Avoid Anytone at all costs: those radios are utter garbage for anything critical, sans hitting local repeaters for a quick chat. They freeze up, repeatedly, and without warning, they are buggy as heck, features semi-work, plus receivers are far worse, as measured, than what the Gen2 MotoTRBO radios have (XPR7550e, XPR5550e SL7550e)... With Anytone you'll be an eternal beta-tester for features that will never work right. Audio quality sucks compared to the XPR7550e, I don't think I've heard any other digital radio that sounds as good as the XPR7550e with the right profile. Oh, why bash anytone? well, I am the unlucky owner of an AT-578 (collecting dust) x2 Alinco MD5 and I've owned x2 AT-878 (which sucked real bad so I returned them back to Amazon).. Trust me, don't make the same mistakes I made, mislead by post stating "good entry level dmr nonsense" don't waste your money on a piece of crap. Buy once, cry once, or "don't be the guy who has enough money to do things wrong many times, be the guy who has the money to do it right, once"
PS.3 Don't settle for the XPR7550 (non e). There is a significant RX performance improvement between the two radios.
G.
