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Mobile Shortwave Transceiver
Desktop Shortwave receiver
DMR Dual-Band Transceiver

General

HAM bands 160m  80m  60m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  10m  ? 2m  70cm 
Freq. stability ? ? ± 1 p.p.m.
Tuning steps 100 Hz ? 12.5 kHz

Receiver

RX-range 1.5-30 MHz 150-350 / 550-1500 kHz / 1.5-22 / 88-108 MHz 136-174 / 400-480 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   SSB   AM   CW   SSB   FM   FSK   DMR  
Sensitivity ? ? Analog
0.2 µV (12dB SINAD)

Digital
0.25 µV (BER 5%)
0.22 µV / -110dBm (BER 1%)
Selectivity ? ? ?
Filters ? ? 12.5 kHz
Receiver system ? Single conversion ?
IF-freqs. ? 465 kHz ?
Image rejection ? ? 84 dB
Audio output requires headphones / external speaker 0.75 W ≤ 1000 mW @ 16Ω

Transmitter

TX-range 1.5-30 MHz - 136-174 / 400-480 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   SSB   - FM   FSK   DMR  
RF-output 40 W, 25 W, 5 W (PEP) ? 1 / 5 W

Connections

Antenna BNC + Proprietary (military) SO-239 SMA
Impedance 50Ω 75/400Ω 50Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. 20-32V DC (28V nominal) 6×U2 (1.5V) battery cells 7.4 V DC, 2000 mAh Li-ion
Current RX 30 W ? ?
TX 140 W - ?

Physical

Manufactured Between 197x and 20xx in MEL Communications Ltd in Crawley, England Between 196x and 197x in Great Britain (Birmingham) Between 2018 and 20xx
Dimensions 230 × 220 × 336 mm
(9.06 × 8.66 × 13.23 in)
317 × 162 × 203 mm
(12.48 × 6.38 × 7.99 in)
131 × 61 × 36 mm
(5.16 × 2.40 × 1.42 in)
Weight 26.00 kg (57.4 lbs) ? 258 gr (9.1 oz)
Form factor Mobile Base Station Handheld

Other features

Memories ? ? 3000 channels in 32 bank(s)
Usage Military communication Marine / Navy Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? AFC IP67 dust/waterproof
Optional GPS
Color LCD
8 hours audio recording
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN CLANSMAN-VRC-000321 EDDYSTONE-EB-000035-MK-III-(STATESMAN) TYT-UV-000390