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Desktop Shortwave receiver
Handheld HF/VHF Receiver
SmartSDR transceiver

General

HAM bands 80m  40m  20m  15m  10m  ? 160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m 
Freq. stability ? ? 0.02 p.p.m. OCXO
Tuning steps ? ? 1 Hz

Receiver

RX-range 80-10 m LW / MW / 1.6-30 / 87-108 MHz 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   SSB   AM   W-FM   CW   SSB   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
Sensitivity ? ? ?
Selectivity 2.5 kHz (6dB) / 8.1 kHz (60dB) ? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system ? ? SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection ? ? ≥ 100 dB
Audio output Jensen speaker ? 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

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

Connections

Antenna - Built-in sweep BNC + SO-239
Impedance 50 Ω 50/75 Ω 5-500Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

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

Physical

Manufactured Between 1957 and 1959 Between 1972 and 1973 Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions 171 × 279 × 381 mm
(6.73 × 10.98 × 15.00 in)
460 × 260 × 130 mm
(18.11 × 10.24 × 5.12 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight 8.20 kg (18.1 lbs) 6.45 kg (14.2 lbs) 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Handheld Headless

Other features

Memories ? ? ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features One optional band ? SDR (Software Defined Radio)
Ethernet

CPU / DSP: TMS320DM8168CYG4
RISC processor: 1.4 GHz ARM CortexTM-A8/NEON
DSP processor: 1.2 GHz TMS320C647x 32-bit FP
DSP Floating Point Operations: 121 GFLOPS
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN DRAKE-000001-A GRUNDIG-SATELLIT-001000 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006700