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Desktop Shortwave receiver
Desktop HF/VHF Receiver
SmartSDR transceiver

General

HAM bands 160m  80m  60m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  10m  80m  40m  20m  15m  11m (CB)  10m  160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m 
Freq. stability Within 300 Hz if the nearest 100 kHz calibration point is used to adjust the fiducial ? 0.02 p.p.m. OCXO
Tuning steps Continuous Continuous 1 Hz

Receiver

RX-range 0.54-30.5 MHz in 30 bands 0.54-34 MHz in 4 bands 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   AM   CW   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
Sensitivity Band 1: Less than 15 µV for 10 dB S/N
Bands 2 to 30: Less than 5 µV for 10 dB S/N
? ?
Selectivity 1 / 3 / 6 / 10 kHz ? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system Triple Conversion Superheterodyne Single conversion (8 tubes) SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. ? 455 kHz ?
Image rejection ? ? ≥ 100 dB
Audio output External 270G-3 Speaker, 2.5 W Internal speaker 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

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

Connections

Antenna SO-239 Clamps / screws BNC + SO-239
Impedance 50Ω 50-600Ω 5-500Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. Mains (110-120 / 220-240 V AC) Mains (105-125 V AC, 50/60 Hz) 13.8V DC ± 15%
Current RX 85 W ? 1.5 A
TX - - 23 A

Physical

Manufactured Between 1952 and 1956 in USA Between 1959 and 1963 in USA Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions 536 × 317 × 333 mm
(21.10 × 12.48 × 13.11 in)
476 × 216 × 259 mm
(18.74 × 8.50 × 10.20 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight 19.50 kg (43.0 lbs) 14.50 kg (32.0 lbs) 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Base Station Headless

Other features

Memories None None ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? •¼" Head. Jack • AVC ON/OFF • BFO • Bandspread • RF Gain • ANL • Mute Line • Speaker Terminals • Tone • Standby • Speaker SDR (Software Defined Radio)
Ethernet

CPU / DSP: TMS320DM8168CYG4
RISC processor: 1.4 GHz ARM CortexTM-A8/NEON
DSP processor: 1.2 GHz TMS320C647x 32-bit FP
DSP Floating Point Operations: 121 GFLOPS
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN COLLINS-000051J-3 HALLICRAFTERS-S-000108 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006700