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SmartSDR transceiver
VHF Lineair Amplifier
HF Variable Frequency Oscillator

General

HAM bands 160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m  2m  160m  80m  40m  20m  15m  10m 
Freq. stability 0.5 p.p.m. TCXO ? ?
Tuning steps 1 Hz ? ?

Receiver

RX-range 30 kHz – 77 MHz ? 160-10 m
Modulations AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   - All mode  
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 ? ?
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection ≥ 100 dB ? ?
Audio output 1W diagnostic speaker ? ?

Transmitter

TX-range 160-6 m 143-149 MHz ?
Modulations AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   All mode   All mode  
RF-output 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM 10 W @ 1.5 W input ?

Connections

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

Electrical

Power req. 13.8V DC ± 15% 12-16 V DC ?
Current RX 1.5 A ? -
TX 23 A ? ?

Physical

Manufactured Between 2013 and 20xx in USA Between 1974 and 197x in USA Between 19xx and 19xx in USA
Dimensions 330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
95 × 70 × 130 mm
(3.74 × 2.76 × 5.12 in)
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Weight 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs) 500 gr (1.1 lbs) ?
Form factor Headless Mobile Base Station

Other features

Memories ? ? ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
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
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Accessories ? ? ?
MPN FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006500 HEATHKIT-HA-000201 HEATHKIT-VF-000001