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Desktop Shortwave receiver
Desktop Transceiver
SmartSDR transceiver

General

HAM bands 80m  40m  20m  15m  10m  11m (CB)  160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m 
Freq. stability ? ? 0.5 p.p.m. TCXO
Tuning steps Continuous Channelized 1 Hz

Receiver

RX-range 80-10 m 25.615-28.315 MHz 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations CW   SSB   AM   FM   CW   SSB   AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
Sensitivity ? ? 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 Single conversion ? SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection ? ? ≥ 100 dB
Audio output ? ? 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

TX-range - 25.615-28.315 MHz 160-6 m
Modulations - AM   FM   CW   SSB   AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
RF-output ? 21 W 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM

Connections

Antenna RCA (Tulip) - BNC + SO-239
Impedance 50Ω ? 5-500Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. Mains or 13.8V DC ? 13.8V DC ± 15%
Current RX 200 mA ? 1.5 A
TX - ? 23 A

Physical

Manufactured Between 19xx and 19xx in USA Between 19xx and 19xx Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions 216 × 95 × 248 mm
(8.50 × 3.74 × 9.76 in)
? 330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight 3.20 kg (7.1 lbs) ? 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Base Station Headless

Other features

Memories None 271 channels in bank(s) ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Citizen Band (27Mc) Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? ? 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 ATLAS-RX-000110 MIDLAND/ALAN-000555 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006500