Paul;
I will add another angle;
Motorola used to make a low cost mobile radio called the "MOXY". It was
a cheap radio to compete with Japanese brands. Motorola also sold a
somewhat more expensive model called the MAXAR 80 targeting buyers
wanting a high performance dash mounted radio. In the high powered UHF
and VHF models of 30 watts and higher, the MAXAR 80 chassis was used in
both the MAXAR 80, the MAXAR (slightly cheaper) and the dirt cheap MOXY.
All three radios had same guts (a pretty good performer by the way) but
were given a different set of performance specifications. So the guy who
bought the MOXY (which was an ugly radio with a tiny mike!) got just as
good a radio as the buyer of the hyped up MAXAR 80.

It is called specsmanship

Pdigmking wrote:

I'm looking at these GMRS motorolas, one is a t6510xmrs and another is a
t5520. Here's the thing: both have a power output of one watt, but one
claims to have a distance range of 8 miles, and the other 5. Is this BS or
what? Why would one 1 -watt radio have more range than another 1 watt
radio? They both have the same size antenna.

Paul.



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