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Desktop Shortwave receiver
Desktop Shortwave Transceiver
Handheld HF/VHF/UHF Scanner / receiver

General

HAM bands 160m  80m  60m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  10m  160m  80m  40m  20m  15m  10m  ?
Freq. stability ? ? ?
Tuning steps Continuous ? ?

Receiver

RX-range 0.15-30 MHz 1.8-30 MHz 0.531-1320 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   USB   LSB   CW   SSB   AM   FM   W-FM   CW   SSB  
Sensitivity ? ? ?
Selectivity ? ? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system ? ? ?
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection ? ? ?
Audio output ? ? ?

Transmitter

TX-range - 160-10 m -
Modulations - CW   SSB   -
RF-output ? 80 W ?

Connections

Antenna - - BNC
Impedance 50Ω 50 Ω 50 Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. 24V DC or mains 13.8V DC ?V DC
Current RX ? ? ?
TX - Max 15 A -

Physical

Manufactured Between 19xx and 19xx Between 1982 and 19xx Between 2000 and 200x
Dimensions 482 × 178 × 279 mm
(18.98 × 7.01 × 10.98 in)
? 60 × 120 × 32 mm
(2.36 × 4.72 × 1.26 in)
Weight 6.35 kg (14.0 lbs) 6.50 kg (14.3 lbs) 310 gr (10.9 oz)
Form factor Base Station Base Station Handheld

Other features

Memories ? ? 1000 channels in 1 bank(s) @ 30 channels/second
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? ? Speech descrambler
Clock / alarm / on-off timer
Green/orange LCD backlight
Data cloning
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN DRAKE-RR-000002 DRAKE-TR-000005 YUPITERU-MVT-007300