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General

HAM bands 160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  10m  160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m  11m (CB) 
Freq. stability Less than ±200 Hz from 1 minute to 60 minutes after power on. After that rate of stability less than ±30 Hz/hr. at +25°C (+77°F) 0.02 p.p.m. OCXO ?
Tuning steps 0.001 kHz 1 Hz Channelized

Receiver

RX-range 0.030-30 MHz 30 kHz – 77 MHz 26.965-27.405 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   USB   LSB   RTTY   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   AM   FM  
Sensitivity SSB, CW, RTTY
0.16 µV (1.8-29.999999 MHz)
AM
13 µV (0.5-1.799999 MHz)
2 µV (1.8-29.999999 MHz)
? ?
Selectivity SSB, CW, RTTY
More than 2.1 kHz/-6 dB
Less than 4.5 kHz/-60 dB
AM
More than 6.0 kHz/-6 dB
Less than 20 kHz/-40 dB
? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system Double conversion superheterodyne SDR, Direct Digital Sampling Superheterodyne
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection More than 70 dB (1.8-29.999999 MHz) ≥ 100 dB ?
Audio output More than 2.0W at 10% distortion with an 8Ω load 1W diagnostic speaker Internal speaker

Transmitter

TX-range 10-160 m + WARC 160-6 m 26.965-27.405 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   USB   LSB   RTTY   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   AM   FM  
RF-output AM: 2-40 W, SSB/CW: 2-100 W 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM 4 W

Connections

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

Electrical

Power req. 13.8V DC ±15% (negative ground) 13.8V DC ± 15% 13.8 V DC
Current RX 2 A max 1.5 A ?
TX 20 A max 23 A ?

Physical

Manufactured Between 2000 and 200x Between 2013 and 20xx in USA Between 20xx and 20xx
Dimensions 240 × 95 × 239 mm
(9.45 × 3.74 × 9.41 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
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Weight 3.80 kg (8.4 lbs) 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs) ?
Form factor Base Station Headless Mobile

Other features

Memories 101 channels in 1 bank(s) ? 40 channels in 1 bank(s)
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Citizen Band (27Mc)
Features DSP (UT-106) and speech synthesizer (UT-102) options 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
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Accessories ? ? ?
MPN ICOM-IC-000718 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006700 PRESIDENT-BARRY