Not necessarily, I'm a truck driver and own both anytone and ranger radios. I've got a couple Rangers that do really well on ssb. 2950dx6, 2970n2 and even the little tre-797 do really well in ssb I know because I own and use them ssb.The longhorn n6 and 99 series are the same also. Truck drivers are Rangers main market as ssb operators mostly just trash them online and buy some kind of anytone.