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Desktop Shortwave receiver
Mobile VHF Transceiver
SmartSDR transceiver

General

HAM bands 80m  40m  20m  15m  10m  2m  160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m 
Freq. stability ? ? 0.02 p.p.m. OCXO
Tuning steps Continuous 5 or 12.5 kHz depending on region 1 Hz

Receiver

RX-range 10-80 m 143.000-148.995 MHz (Asia)
144.000-148.995 MHz (Europe)
30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   SSB   FM   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
Sensitivity ? S/N ≤ 35 dB: 1uv
S/N ≤ 20 dB: 0.35 µV
SINAD ≤ 10%: 0.5 µV
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Selectivity ? ± 6 kHz at -6 dB
± 16 kHz at -60 dB
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Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system ? Double superheterodyne SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. ? 1st: 10.7 MHz
2nd: 455 kHz
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Image rejection ? ≥ 70 dB ≥ 100 dB
Audio output ? ≥ 1.5 W @ 10% THD into 8 Ohms 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

TX-range - 143.000-148.995 MHz (Asia)
144.000-148.995 MHz (Europe)
160-6 m
Modulations - FM   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
RF-output ? High: 25 W, Low: 3 W 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM

Connections

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

Electrical

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

Physical

Manufactured Between 19xx and 19xx in USA Between 1980 and 19xx Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions 374 × 169 × 292 mm
(14.72 × 6.65 × 11.50 in)
180 × 60 × 195 mm
(7.09 × 2.36 × 7.68 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight 9.00 kg (19.9 lbs) 2.20 kg (4.9 lbs) 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Mobile Headless

Other features

Memories None 10 channels in 1 bank(s) ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? ? 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-000075S-2 KDK-FM-002025 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006700