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Desktop Shortwave receiver
CB Transceiver
SmartSDR transceiver

General

HAM bands ? 11m (CB)  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 0.03-30 MHz 26.965-27.255 MHz 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations 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
? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system Double conversion superheterodyne ? SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. 1st: 45 MHz
2nd: 455 kHz
? ?
Image rejection ? ? ≥ 100 dB
Audio output 1.6W 8 ohms 5% THD ? 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

TX-range - 26.965-27.255 MHz 160-6 m
Modulations - - AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
RF-output ? ? 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM

Connections

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

Electrical

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

Physical

Manufactured Between 199x and 199x in Great Britain Between 19xx and 19xx in Japan Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions 483 × 89 × 320 mm
(19.02 × 3.50 × 12.60 in)
? 330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight 5.58 kg (12.3 lbs) ? 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Unknown Headless

Other features

Memories 30 channels in 1 bank(s) ? ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Citizen Band (27Mc) 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 LOWE-HF-000235 GEMTRONICS-GT-000230 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006700