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Mobile HF/VHF/UHF Scanner / receiver
HF Transceiver
SmartSDR transceiver

General

HAM bands ? 80m  40m  20m  15m  10m  160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m 
Freq. stability ? ? 0.5 p.p.m. TCXO
Tuning steps ? ? 1 Hz

Receiver

RX-range 25-512 / 806-956 / 1240-1300 MHz 80-10 m 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations AM   FM   N-FM   W-FM   AM   CW   SSB   AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
Sensitivity ? ? CW Noise floor (MDS), 400 Hz BW
0.137 MHz: –125 dBm
0.475 MHz: –133 dBm
1.0 MHz: –136 dBm
3.5 MHz: –136 dBm
14 MHz: –136 dBm
50 MHz –120 –126 –136
70 MHz –116 –123 –133
AM 10 dB (S+N)/N, 1 kHz, 30% modulation, 6 kHz BW
1.0 MHz: 1.00 µV
3.8 MHz: 1.00 µV
29.0 MHz: 1.19 µV
50.4 MHz: 1.38 µV
FM 12 dB SINAD, 16 kHz BW
29 MHz: 0.40 µV
52 MHz: 0.44 µV
70 MHz: 0.59 µV
Selectivity ? ? 400 Hz or more, software defined
Filters ? ? Software defined
Receiver system ? ? SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection ? ? ≥ 100 dB
Audio output ? ? 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

TX-range - 80-10 m 160-6 m
Modulations - AM   CW   SSB   AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
RF-output ? 150 W 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM

Connections

Antenna BNC SO-239 BNC + SO-239
Impedance 50 Ω 50 Ω 5-500Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. 12V DC Mains 13.8V DC ± 15%
Current RX Max 500 mA ? 1.5 A
TX - ? 23 A

Physical

Manufactured Between 200x and 200x Between 1978 and 19xx Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions 177 × 51 × 154 mm
(6.97 × 2.01 × 6.06 in)
273 × 140 × 365 mm
(10.75 × 5.51 × 14.37 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight 1.10 kg (2.4 lbs) 7.30 kg (16.1 lbs) 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Mobile Unknown Headless

Other features

Memories 250 channels in 5 bank(s) ? ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features Tracks Motorola, EDACS and LTR systems. "Close call" RF capture technology ? SDR (Software Defined Radio)
Ethernet

CPU / DSP: TMS320DM8168CYG2
RISC processor: 1.2 GHz ARM CortexTM-A8/NEONTM
DSP processor: 1.0 GHz TMS320C647x 32-bit FP
DSP Floating Point Operations: 78 GFLOPS
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN UNIDEN-BEARCAT-UBCT-000008 DRAKE-TR-000004CW FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006500