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Desktop Shortwave Transceiver
Desktop Shortwave receiver
Mobile Shortwave receiver

General

HAM bands 160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  10m  80m  40m  20m  15m  10m  6m 
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 0.001 kHz ? ?

Receiver

RX-range 0.030-30 MHz 80-10 m + WWV option 1.1-16 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   USB   LSB   RTTY   AM   CW   SSB   AM   CW  
Sensitivity 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 More than 2.0W at 10% distortion with an 8Ω load 1 W for 8 Ohm / 600 Ohm ?

Transmitter

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

Connections

Antenna SO-239 RCA (Tulip) Proprietary (military)
Impedance 50Ω 50Ω 50Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. 13.8V DC ±15% (negative ground) Mains 67.5 and 6.0 VDC from a battery belt
Current RX 2 A max N/A ?
TX 20 A max - -

Physical

Manufactured Between 2000 and 200x Between 1969 and 1973 in Japan Between 195x and 19xx in Sweden by SRA
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 Base Station Base Station Mobile

Other features

Memories 101 channels in 1 bank(s) ? ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Military communication
Features DSP (UT-106) and speech synthesizer (UT-102) options BFO ?
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN ICOM-IC-000718 YAESU-FR-000050B MILITARY-RA-000190