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General

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

Receiver

RX-range 30 kHz – 77 MHz 26.965-27.? MHz 26.965-27.405 MHz
Modulations AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   - AM   FM  
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 ? ?
Filters Software defined ? ?
Receiver system SDR, Direct Digital Sampling ? Superheterodyne
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection ≥ 100 dB ? ?
Audio output 1W diagnostic speaker ? Internal speaker

Transmitter

TX-range 160-6 m 26.965-27.? MHz 26.965-27.405 MHz
Modulations AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   - AM   FM  
RF-output 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM ? W ?

Connections

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

Electrical

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

Physical

Manufactured Between 2013 and 20xx in USA Between 19xx and 19xx Between 20xx and 20xx
Dimensions 330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
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Weight 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs) ? ?
Form factor Headless Base Station Mobile

Other features

Memories ? 40 channels in 1 bank(s) ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Citizen Band (27Mc) Citizen Band (27Mc)
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
LED channel read out with dimmer
5-segment LED S/RF bar-graph meter
ANL On/Off
PA
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Accessories ? ? ?
MPN FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006500 E.F.-JOHNSON-MESSENGER-004145 PRESIDENT-XP-000400