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Desktop Shortwave receiver
Handheld VHF/UHF Scanner / receiver
SmartSDR transceiver

General

HAM bands ? ? 160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m 
Freq. stability Within 1100 Hz (or 120 Hz using optional oven standard) over the temperature range of 0-50 °C. ? 0.5 p.p.m. TCXO
Tuning steps Selectable steps of 10 Hz, 100 Hz, 1 kHz or 1 MHz; 200 steps per revolution (20 for 1 MHz steps) of tuning knob. ? 1 Hz

Receiver

RX-range 0.2-30 MHz 29-54 / 108-174 / 406-512 MHz 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   USB   LSB   FSK   AM   FM   AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
Sensitivity (at 1.6 to 30 MHz, not more than antenna input) 0.5 µV for 10 dB S+N/N for SSB and CW using 2.1 kHz filter and 3.5 µV in AM (30% mod 1 kHz) using 6-kHz filter 0.2 to 1.6 MHz, not more than 1.5 µV SSB/CW and 10 µV AM for above conditions. ? 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 Filter -3dB Min -60 dB Max
6.0 6.0 kHz 30.0 kHz
2.1 2.1 kHz 4.4 kHz
360 360 Hz 1250.0 Hz

optional
AC-3811 140 Hz 600 Hz
AC-3812 1.7 kHz 3.4 kHz
AC-3814 3.0 kHz 9.0 kHz
? 400 Hz or more, software defined
Filters ? ? Software defined
Receiver system Double conversion superheterodyne (?) ? SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. 1st: ?
2nd: 455 kHz
? ?
Image rejection ≥ 60 dB ? ≥ 100 dB
Audio output Internal speaker 500mW max 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

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

Connections

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

Electrical

Power req. Mains or 13.8 V DC 12V DC or NiCd battery (7.2V) 13.8V DC ± 15%
Current RX ? ? 1.5 A
TX - - 23 A

Physical

Manufactured Between 19xx and 19xx in USA Between 1987 and 19xx in Philippines Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions 394 × 191 × 457 mm
(15.51 × 7.52 × 17.99 in)
68 × 200 × 34 mm
(2.68 × 7.87 × 1.34 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight 12.70 kg (28.0 lbs) 390 gr (13.8 oz) 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Handheld Headless

Other features

Memories None 100 channels in 10 bank(s) @ 15 channels/second ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features Passband tuning
Built-in AC/DC power supply
Built-in speaker
Digital frequency readout
? 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 COLLINS-000451S-1 UNIDEN-BEARCAT-BC000100XLT FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006500