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Handheld Shortwave Transceiver
Desktop Shortwave receiver
SmartSDR transceiver

General

HAM bands ? ? 160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m 
Freq. stability ? < ±30 Hz in 1 hour typical 0.02 p.p.m. OCXO
Tuning steps ? 8 Hz / 0.05 kHz 1 Hz

Receiver

RX-range 15 m (50 KHz per XTAL) 0.03-30 MHz 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations CW   SSB   AM   FM   CW   USB   LSB   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
Sensitivity ? 0.5 µV SSB 2-30 Mhz ?
Selectivity ? 2.2 kHz 2.3 kHz -6 dB
4.0 kHz 5.9 kHz -6 dB
7.0 kHz 8.8 kHz -6 dB
10 kHz 10.5 kHz -6 dB
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Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system VXO. Max 2 XTALS Double conversion superheterodyne SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. ? 1st: 45 MHz
2nd: 455 kHz
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Image rejection ? ? ≥ 100 dB
Audio output ? 1.6W 8 ohms 5% THD 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

TX-range 15 m (50 KHz per XTAL) - 160-6 m
Modulations CW   SSB   - AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
RF-output 2 W ? 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM

Connections

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

Electrical

Power req. 9.5V DC 13.8V DC 13.8V DC ± 15%
Current RX 68 mA ? 1.5 A
TX Max 600 mA - 23 A

Physical

Manufactured Between 1983 and 2002 in Japan Between 199x and 199x in Great Britain Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions 66 × 142 × 39 mm
(2.60 × 5.59 × 1.54 in)
483 × 89 × 320 mm
(19.02 × 3.50 × 12.60 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight 645 gr (1.4 lbs) batteries included 5.58 kg (12.3 lbs) 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Handheld Base Station Headless

Other features

Memories ? 30 channels in 1 bank(s) ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? PC-control 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 JIM-MX-000021S LOWE-HF-000235 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006700