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Mobile 70cm Transceiver
Desktop Shortwave Transceiver
Desktop Shortwave receiver

General

HAM bands 70cm  160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  10m  80m  40m  20m  15m  10m 
Freq. stability ? Less than ±200 Hz from 1 minute to 60 minutes after power on. After that rate of stability less than ±30 Hz/hr. at +25°C (+77°F) ?
Tuning steps 1 kHz 0.001 kHz ?

Receiver

RX-range 430-440 MHz 0.030-30 MHz 80-10 m + WWV option
Modulations FM   CW   USB   LSB   AM   CW   USB   LSB   RTTY   AM   CW   SSB  
Sensitivity FM: -6dBuV input S / N30dB (F = 433.0 MHz)
SSB: -20dBuV input S / N10dB (F = 433.00 MHz)
SSB, CW, RTTY
0.16 µV (1.8-29.999999 MHz)
AM
13 µV (0.5-1.799999 MHz)
2 µV (1.8-29.999999 MHz)
SSB: ≤ 0.5 µV S/N 10 dB
AM: ≤ 1 µV S/N 10 dB
Selectivity ? SSB, CW, RTTY
More than 2.1 kHz/-6 dB
Less than 4.5 kHz/-60 dB
AM
More than 6.0 kHz/-6 dB
Less than 20 kHz/-40 dB
1.5 kHz @ -6 dB
5 kHz @ -50 dB
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system ? Double conversion superheterodyne ?
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection ? More than 70 dB (1.8-29.999999 MHz) ≥ 50 dB
Audio output Internal speaker More than 2.0W at 10% distortion with an 8Ω load 1 W for 8 Ohm / 600 Ohm

Transmitter

TX-range 430-440 MHz 10-160 m + WARC -
Modulations FM   CW   USB   LSB   AM   CW   USB   LSB   RTTY   -
RF-output 1 / 10 W AM: 2-40 W, SSB/CW: 2-100 W ?

Connections

Antenna N-type SO-239 RCA (Tulip)
Impedance 50Ω 50Ω 50Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. 13.8 V DC 13.8V DC ±15% (negative ground) Mains
Current RX ? 2 A max N/A
TX ? 20 A max -

Physical

Manufactured Between 198x and 198x in Japan Between 2000 and 200x Between 1969 and 1973 in Japan
Dimensions ? 240 × 95 × 239 mm
(9.45 × 3.74 × 9.41 in)
335 × 153 × 260 mm
(13.19 × 6.02 × 10.24 in)
Weight ? 3.80 kg (8.4 lbs) 8.00 kg (17.7 lbs)
Form factor Mobile Base Station Base Station

Other features

Memories 4 channels in 1 bank(s) 101 channels in 1 bank(s) ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features AGC
NB
DSP (UT-106) and speech synthesizer (UT-102) options BFO
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN ICOM-IC-000390 ICOM-IC-000718 YAESU-FR-000050B