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Base Station Marine Receiver
Desktop Shortwave receiver
Desktop Shortwave receiver

General

HAM bands 160m  80m  60m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  10m  2000m  160m  80m  60m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  80m  40m  20m  15m  10m 
Freq. stability ? ? ?
Tuning steps ? Continuous Continuous

Receiver

RX-range 10 kHz-30 MHz divided into 11 bands 150-350 / 550-1500 kHz / 1.5-22 / 88-108 MHz 80-10 m
Modulations AM   CW   USB   LSB   AM   CW   SSB   CW   SSB  
Sensitivity ? ? ?
Selectivity ? ? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system Double/triple conversion superheterodyne Single conversion Single conversion
IF-freqs. 1st: 48050 kHz
2nd: 5645 kHz
465 kHz ?
Image rejection ? ? ?
Audio output Internal speaker 0.75 W ?

Transmitter

TX-range - - -
Modulations - - -
RF-output ? ? ?

Connections

Antenna - SO-239 RCA (Tulip)
Impedance 50/200Ω 75/400Ω 50Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. 24V DC or mains 6×U2 (1.5V) battery cells Mains or 13.8V DC
Current RX ? ? 200 mA
TX - - -

Physical

Manufactured Between 1981 and 19xx in USA Between 196x and 197x in Great Britain (Birmingham) Between 19xx and 19xx in USA
Dimensions 480 × 133 × 356 mm
(18.90 × 5.24 × 14.02 in)
317 × 162 × 203 mm
(12.48 × 6.38 × 7.99 in)
216 × 95 × 248 mm
(8.50 × 3.74 × 9.76 in)
Weight 8.60 kg (19.0 lbs) ? 3.20 kg (7.1 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Base Station Base Station

Other features

Memories None None None
Usage Marine / Navy Marine / Navy Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? AFC ?
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN DRAKE-RR-000003 EDDYSTONE-EB-000035-MK-II ATLAS-RX-000110