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HF Transceiver
SmartSDR transceiver
Mobile 2m FM Transceiver

General

HAM bands 160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  10m  160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m  2m 
Freq. stability ? 0.02 p.p.m. OCXO ± 0.002/0.003 %
Tuning steps ? 1 Hz ?

Receiver

RX-range 160-10 m + WARC 30 kHz – 77 MHz 144-146 / 145-147 / 146-148 MHz depending on version
Modulations CW   USB   LSB   RTTY   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   FM  
Sensitivity 0.35 µV for 10 dB S+N/N ? ?
Selectivity SSB: 2.4 kHz
CW/RTTY: 400 Hz
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Filters 400 Hz optional ? ?
Receiver system Single conversion superheterodyne SDR, Direct Digital Sampling Double conversion superheterodyne
IF-freqs. 9.00165 MHz ? 1st: 22 MHz
2nd: 455 MHz
Image rejection ≥ 60 dB ≥ 100 dB ?
Audio output 3 W into 4 Ohms 1W diagnostic speaker 3 W for external speaker

Transmitter

TX-range 160-10 m + WARC 160-6 m 144-146 / 145-147 / 146-148 MHz depending on version
Modulations CW   USB   LSB   RTTY   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   FM  
RF-output 100 W on all bands 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM 1 / 10 W

Connections

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

Electrical

Power req. 12-14V DC 13.8V DC ± 15% 13.8 V DC
Current RX 1.8 A 1.5 A 80-320 mA
TX 20 A max 23 A 2.6 A max

Physical

Manufactured Between 1980 and 198x in USA Between 2013 and 20xx in USA Between 19xx and 19xx in Japan
Dimensions 362 × 162 × 337 mm
(14.25 × 6.38 × 13.27 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
84 × 58 × 235 mm
(3.31 × 2.28 × 9.25 in)
Weight 10.60 kg (23.4 lbs) 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs) 960 gr (2.1 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Headless Mobile

Other features

Memories None ? 12 channels in 1 bank(s)
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features Full QSK
VOX
Noise blanker
Break-in CW
IF-gain adjust
RF-gain adjust
SDR (Software Defined Radio)
Ethernet

CPU / DSP: TMS320DM8168CYG4
RISC processor: 1.4 GHz ARM CortexTM-A8/NEON
DSP processor: 1.2 GHz TMS320C647x 32-bit FP
DSP Floating Point Operations: 121 GFLOPS
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Accessories ? ? ?
MPN SWAN-(CUBIC)-ASTRO-000103 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006700 STANDARD-C-000828M