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General

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

Receiver

RX-range 80-10 m + WWV option 30 kHz – 77 MHz 26.965-27.? MHz
Modulations AM   CW   SSB   AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   AM   USB   LSB  
Sensitivity SSB: ≤ 0.5 µV S/N 10 dB
AM: ≤ 1 µV S/N 10 dB
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 1.5 kHz @ -6 dB
5 kHz @ -50 dB
400 Hz or more, software defined ?
Filters ? Software defined ?
Receiver system ? SDR, Direct Digital Sampling ?
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection ≥ 50 dB ≥ 100 dB ?
Audio output 1 W for 8 Ohm / 600 Ohm 1W diagnostic speaker ?

Transmitter

TX-range - 160-6 m 26.965-27.? MHz
Modulations - AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   AM   USB   LSB  
RF-output ? 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM 15 W PEP

Connections

Antenna RCA (Tulip) BNC + SO-239 SO-239
Impedance 50Ω 5-500Ω ?
Other - - -

Electrical

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

Physical

Manufactured Between 1969 and 1973 in Japan Between 2013 and 20xx in USA Between 1971 and 197x
Dimensions 335 × 153 × 260 mm
(13.19 × 6.02 × 10.24 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
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Weight 8.00 kg (17.7 lbs) 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs) ?
Form factor Base Station Headless Mobile

Other features

Memories ? ? 23 channels in 1 bank(s)
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Citizen Band (27Mc)
Features BFO 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
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Accessories ? ? ?
MPN YAESU-FR-000050B FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006500 TRAM-CORSAIR