Motorola BPR40d UHF 4 W 16-Channel Digital Two-Way Business Radio

The Mag One BPR 40 digital is Motorola's entry business radio, built for sites that want reliable coverage without a feature set anybody has to be trained on.

This model carries 16 channels at 4 W on UHF. Motorola gives it a large channel knob so a user can change channel by feel, a tricolor LED that shows radio status and battery level at a glance, and voice announcement so an action or alert is confirmed audibly rather than only on a screen it does not have.

Battery save mode is what makes the runtime work in practice, and nuisance channel delete keeps a busy channel out of a scan list without reprogramming the radio. Repeater talkaround lets the fleet keep talking directly if the repeater is unavailable.

The digital model adds private call for a one to one conversation, and mixed-mode scan so it monitors digital and analog channels together. That is what lets a site move to digital gradually rather than replacing every radio at once.

Who it is for

The BPR 40d is the digital member of the Mag One pair: the same body and controls as the BPR 40, with DMR added for clearer audio at the edge of coverage and a longer runtime per charge. It suits a retail, hospitality, light construction or education site that runs analog today and wants to move to digital one radio at a time, because mixed-mode scan monitors digital and analog channels together. This SKU is the 16-channel UHF model, and UHF suits buildings and built-up sites; read UHF vs VHF two-way radios if the band choice is still open and analog vs digital two-way radios for what digital changes.

Size, weight and battery

• Size: 4.2 x 2.3 x 1.5 in (107 x 58 x 37 mm).
• Weight: 10.9 oz (310 g) with the Li-Ion battery.
• Battery: 1700 mAh Li-Ion.
• Battery life: rated by Motorola at up to 15 hours digital or up to 12 hours analog on a 5-5-90 duty cycle (5 percent receive, 5 percent transmit, 90 percent standby).
• Power and band: 4 W high and 1 W low on UHF 403 to 470 MHz, 12.5 or 25 kHz channel spacing.
• Digital features: 128-entry contact list, private, group and all call, radio check, voice announcement, remote monitor, radio enable and disable, transmit interrupt (digital mode), mixed-mode channel scan.
• Protection: IP54, protected against dust and splashing water; die-cast chassis in a polycarbonate housing; two-year standard warranty.
• Operating temperature: -22 F to 140 F (-30 C to +60 C).

Licence

This radio operates on licensed business frequencies. An FCC business radio licence (Part 90) is required to transmit; CMI can point you at the process when you order.

Accessories that fit

CMI connector code: M (Motorola 2-pin). Motorola's data sheet lists a 2-pin accessory connector for the BPR 40d and names no accessory part numbers, so ask CMI for the earpiece, speaker microphone or headset for this radio by connector code.

Part number

CMI part number: BPR40D-U16. The analog BPR 40 is listed as BPR 40 UHF 16-channel and BPR 40 UHF 8-channel; for a Mag One digital radio with more channels, louder audio and USB-C charging, see the Mag One BPR 50dX UHF. See CMI's Motorola collection and business radio collection.