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Desktop Shortwave receiver
HF Transceiver
External Speaker

General

HAM bands 160m  80m  60m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  10m  80m  40m  20m  15m  10m  ?
Freq. stability Within 300 Hz if the nearest 100 kHz calibration point is used to adjust the fiducial ? ?
Tuning steps Continuous Continuous ?

Receiver

RX-range 0.54-30.5 MHz in 30 bands 80-10 m -
Modulations AM   CW   CW   USB   LSB   -
Sensitivity Band 1: Less than 15 µV for 10 dB S/N
Bands 2 to 30: Less than 5 µV for 10 dB S/N
≤ 1 µV (S+N/N) ?
Selectivity 1 / 3 / 6 / 10 kHz SSB: 2.1 kHz (-6 dB), 7 kHz (-60 dB)
CW: 400 Hz (-6 dB), 2 kHz (-60 dB)
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Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system Triple Conversion Superheterodyne ? ?
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection ? 60 dB ?
Audio output External 270G-3 Speaker, 2.5 W ? ?

Transmitter

TX-range - 80-10 m -
Modulations - CW   USB   LSB   -
RF-output ? 1 / 100 W ?

Connections

Antenna SO-239 Proprietary -
Impedance 50Ω 50Ω ?
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. Mains (110-120 / 220-240 V AC) 12-16 V DC ?
Current RX 85 W 2 A -
TX - 3-20 A -

Physical

Manufactured Between 1952 and 1956 in USA Between 1975 and 1977 in USA Between 201x and 20xx in Japan
Dimensions 536 × 317 × 333 mm
(21.10 × 12.48 × 13.11 in)
367 × 146 × 352 mm
(14.45 × 5.75 × 13.86 in)
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Weight 19.50 kg (43.0 lbs) 7.00 kg (15.4 lbs) ?
Form factor Base Station Base Station Base Station

Other features

Memories None None ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? ? ?
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN COLLINS-000051J-3 HEATHKIT-HW-000104 ICOM-SP-000033