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Mobile Shortwave Transceiver
Desktop Shortwave receiver
Handheld 6m Transceiver | DX Handy

General

HAM bands 160m  80m  60m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  10m  ? 6m 
Freq. stability ? ? ?
Tuning steps 100 Hz ? ?

Receiver

RX-range 1.5-30 MHz 150-350 / 550-1500 kHz / 1.5-22 / 88-108 MHz 50-50.5 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   SSB   AM   CW   SSB   CW   SSB  
Sensitivity ? ? 0.5 µV (15 dB S/N)
Selectivity ? ? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system ? Single conversion ?
IF-freqs. ? 465 kHz ?
Image rejection ? ? ?
Audio output requires headphones / external speaker 0.75 W ?

Transmitter

TX-range 1.5-30 MHz - 50-50.5 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   SSB   - CW   SSB  
RF-output 40 W, 25 W, 5 W (PEP) ? 1 W max

Connections

Antenna BNC + Proprietary (military) SO-239 BNC
Impedance 50Ω 75/400Ω 50Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. 20-32V DC (28V nominal) 6×U2 (1.5V) battery cells 8.4-9 V DC
Current RX 30 W ? 70 mA
TX 140 W - 620 mA

Physical

Manufactured Between 197x and 20xx in MEL Communications Ltd in Crawley, England Between 196x and 197x in Great Britain (Birmingham) Between 198x and 19xx in Japan
Dimensions 230 × 220 × 336 mm
(9.06 × 8.66 × 13.23 in)
317 × 162 × 203 mm
(12.48 × 6.38 × 7.99 in)
66 × 142 × 39 mm
(2.60 × 5.59 × 1.54 in)
Weight 26.00 kg (57.4 lbs) ? 710 gr (1.6 lbs)
Form factor Mobile Base Station Handheld

Other features

Memories ? ? ?
Usage Military communication Marine / Navy Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? AFC RIT
NB
S/RF-meter
Built-in CW key
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN CLANSMAN-VRC-000321 EDDYSTONE-EB-000035-MK-III-(STATESMAN) AEA-MX-000006S