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Desktop VHF Transmitter
Handheld UHF Transceiver
SmartSDR transceiver

General

HAM bands 2m  70cm  160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m 
Freq. stability ? ±2.5ppm 0.5 p.p.m. TCXO
Tuning steps ? 5 / 6.25 / 12.5 / 25 kHz 1 Hz

Receiver

RX-range - 440-470 MHz 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations - FM   AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
Sensitivity ? <0.20 µV 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 ? ? 400 Hz or more, software defined
Filters ? ? Software defined
Receiver system ? ? SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection Better than 60 dB ? ≥ 100 dB
Audio output ? 400mW 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

TX-range 144-146 MHz 440-470 MHz 160-6 m
Modulations AM   - AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
RF-output Max 10 W 4 W 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM

Connections

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

Electrical

Power req. Mains Li-ion Battery 13.8V DC ± 15%
Current RX - 35 mA (standby) 1.5 A
TX ? 1500 mA 23 A

Physical

Manufactured Between 1968 and 19xx in Japan Between 200x and 201x in China Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions 320 × 150 × 220 mm
(12.60 × 5.91 × 8.66 in)
55.5 × 100 × 31 mm
(2.19 × 3.94 × 1.22 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight 6.00 kg (13.2 lbs) 235 gr (8.3 oz) 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Handheld Headless

Other features

Memories ? 16 channels in 1 bank(s) ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? Repeater Shift
Voice scrambling
CTCSS / DCS
KENWOOD option ready
PC programmable via interface cable
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 MINIX-MTO-000020A LINTON-LT-003260-2 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006500