There is limited DMR where I'm located so I wanted to get the opinion of those who have one, how is analog sensitivity? Do you find the radio better or worse than others you have used?
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XPR4550 as a analog radio
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While I use mine mostly on DMR, I have a few analog freq’s in mine. Certainly works as well in analog as my MCS2000.
It works great on analog. XPR5550e works even better.
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agreed. The 5550E has a hotter RX. The 4550 is no slouch, however.
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they work fine, do MDC1200 encode/decode, QCII, just about everything one could want in an analog radio. Easy to interface with programmable I/O on the accessory connector too.
I used a 4550 as a primarily analog radio for a while. The squelch threshold, in my opinion, is a bit high for simplex work... sometimes I'd have to use the monitor to hear a station that I could copy but the radio didn't want to unmute for. Aside from that, it was a nice radio... brings back some nostalgia.
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I just wish it would do MPL, but Motorola seems to have abandoned that feature 
I use many Motorola XPR4550 mobiles for the sole purpose of passing MDC ID along via analog, as it is cheaper than buying a GEnSAC3 Trbo to ASTRO converter for $12k plus. Running a nationwide radio network with half being ASTRO and the other half being Trbo, with some analog interoperability requirements, the XPR4550/5550/5550e is the way to go. Many end users like to press buttons and it is easier to have a non color display and less keys and no menu options to deal with on the control head. Analog sensitivity and selectivity is great. I have found that slightly used XPR4550's work perfect for my use case, and therefore better than spending more on XPR5550e's. As mentioned above XPR5550e's are more sensitive, but most people will not notice the difference. In my case, I would guess there are at least 200 of these being used in analog mode and maybe 50 more in digital only mode......analog is great in the XPR4550 mobile.
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