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Desktop Shortwave receiver
SmartSDR transceiver
Remotely operated HF/VHF SDR transceiver

General

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

Receiver

RX-range 10-160 m 30 kHz – 77 MHz 30 kHz – 54 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   SSB   AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   AM   AM-sync   FM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   RTTY   DV  
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 Double conversion superheterodyne SDR, Direct Digital Sampling SDR, Direct Digital Sampling ADC sampling rate: 122.88 Msps, ADC resolution: 16 bit.
IF-freqs. 1st: 2195 kHz
2nd: 455 kHz
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Image rejection ? ≥ 100 dB ≥ 100 dB
Audio output ? 1W diagnostic speaker 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

TX-range - 160-6 m 160-6 m
Modulations - AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   AM   AM-sync   FM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   RTTY   DV  
RF-output ? 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-25W AM

Connections

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

Electrical

Power req. Mains 13.8V DC ± 15% 13.8V DC ± 15%
Current RX ? 1.5 A 1.7 A
TX - 23 A 23 A

Physical

Manufactured Between 19xx and 19xx Between 2013 and 20xx in USA Between 2017 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions 419 × 254 × 254 mm
(16.50 × 10.00 × 10.00 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
350 × 171 × 337 mm
(13.78 × 6.73 × 13.27 in)
Weight ? 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs) ?
Form factor Base Station Headless Headless

Other features

Memories None ? ?
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
SDR (Software Defined Radio)
Ethernet
2 × USB 2.0
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN RME-004350A FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006500 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006400