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Desktop Shortwave receiver
Mobile HF/VHF Transceiver
Headless HF/VHF Scanner / receiver

General

HAM bands 160m  80m  60m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  10m  ? ?
Freq. stability Within 300 Hz if the nearest 100 kHz calibration point is used to adjust the fiducial ? 2.5 ppm (0 to 50 °C)
Tuning steps Continuous ? 0.001 kHz

Receiver

RX-range 0.54-30.5 MHz in 30 bands 400-512 MHz 9 kHz - 50 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   FM   AM   AM-sync   FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   ISB   FSK  
Sensitivity Band 1: Less than 15 µV for 10 dB S/N
Bands 2 to 30: Less than 5 µV for 10 dB S/N
? AM: -101 dBm (2.00 µV) @ 10 dB S+N/N, 30% modulation
SSB: -116 dBm (0.35 µV) @ 10 dB S+N/N, 2.1 kHz BW
CW: -123 dBm (0.16 µV) @ 10 dB S+N/N, 500 Hz BW
FM: -112 dBm (0.56 µV) @ 12 dB SINAD, 3 kHz deviation, 12 kHz BW, audio filter 300-3000 Hz, deemphasis -6dB/oct
Selectivity 1 / 3 / 6 / 10 kHz ? 10 Hz - 2 MHz (selectable in 21 coarse steps, fine adjustment in 1 Hz steps)
Filters ? ? Cut-off frequency 1.8 MHz @ -3 dB Attenuation 60 dB min @ 0.5 MHz
Receiver system Triple Conversion Superheterodyne ? DDirect-sampling, digitally down-converting software-defined receiver
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection ? ? 100 dB
Audio output External 270G-3 Speaker, 2.5 W ? ?

Transmitter

TX-range - 477 MHz -
Modulations - FM   -
RF-output ? 5 W ?

Connections

Antenna SO-239 SO-239 SMA
Impedance 50Ω 50Ω 50Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. Mains (110-120 / 220-240 V AC) ? 12V DC
Current RX 85 W ? 500 mA
TX - ? -

Physical

Manufactured Between 1952 and 1956 in USA Between 2010 and 201x in Japan Between 2010 and 20xx
Dimensions 536 × 317 × 333 mm
(21.10 × 12.48 × 13.11 in)
127 × 36 × 157.5 mm
(5.00 × 1.42 × 6.20 in)
?
Weight 19.50 kg (43.0 lbs) ? ?
Form factor Base Station Mobile Headless

Other features

Memories None 100 channels in 2 bank(s) ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? Detachable Remote or In-Dash Control Head
CTCSS / DCS
DSP
Number of memory channels limited by computer memory
USB 2.0 computer interface
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN COLLINS-000051J-3 UNIDEN-BEARCAT-UH000015SX WINRADIO-WR-G000031DDC-'EXCALIBUR'