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Desktop Shortwave 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 Continuous 1 Hz

Receiver

RX-range General coverage 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
Sensitivity ? ?
Selectivity ? ?
Filters ? ?
Receiver system ? SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. ? ?
Image rejection ? ≥ 100 dB
Audio output ? 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 Clamps / screws BNC + SO-239
Impedance ? 5-500Ω
Other - -

Electrical

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

Physical

Manufactured Between 1939 and 194x Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions ? 330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight ? 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Headless

Other features

Memories None ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? 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 RME-000070 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006700