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Desktop Transceiver
SmartSDR transceiver
Mobile QRP HF/50/144/430 MHz D-Star Transceiver

General

HAM bands 11m (CB)  160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m  160m  80m  60m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  2m  70cm  10m  4m 
Freq. stability ? 0.5 p.p.m. TCXO ?
Tuning steps ? 1 Hz ?

Receiver

RX-range ?-? MHz 30 kHz – 77 MHz 0.5-148 / 430-450 MHz
Modulations AM   FM   SSB   AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   AM   FM   N-FM   W-FM   CW   USB   LSB   D-STAR   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
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Selectivity ? 400 Hz or more, software defined FM: ± 5 kHz
N-FM: ± 2.5 kHz
Filters ? Software defined ?
Receiver system ? SDR, Direct Digital Sampling RF Direct Sampling (Down conversion sampling for >25 MHz)
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection ? ≥ 100 dB ?
Audio output ? 1W diagnostic speaker ?

Transmitter

TX-range ?-? MHz 160-6 m 10-160 m + WARC / 6 m / 2 m / 70 cm (also 4 m for Europe)
Modulations AM   FM   SSB   AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   AM   FM   N-FM   USB   LSB   D-STAR   RTTY  
RF-output ? W 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM 5-10 W

Connections

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

Electrical

Power req. ? 13.8V DC ± 15% 13.8V DC external or 7.2 V DC Li-Ion battery
Current RX ? 1.5 A ?
TX ? 23 A ?

Physical

Manufactured Between 19xx and 19xx Between 2013 and 20xx in USA Between 2020 and 202x in Japan
Dimensions ? 330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
200 × 80 × 85 mm
(7.87 × 3.15 × 3.35 in)
Weight ? 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs) 1,000 gr (2.2 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Headless Mobile

Other features

Memories ? ? 10000 channels in 1 bank(s)
Usage Citizen Band (27Mc) Amateur / Ham radio operators 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
4.3" touch screen color display
Spectrum scope and waterfall
Micro SD card slot
Voice recorder
Built-in Bluetooth, WLAN and GPS (with logger)
Accessories ? ? Not specified
MPN TEXAS-RANGER-000696-BASE FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006500 ICOM-IC-000705