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Desktop Shortwave Transceiver
Handheld UHF Transceiver
Mobile VHF/UHF Scanner / receiver

General

HAM bands 160m  80m  60m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  10m  70cm  6m  2m  1.25m  70cm  33cm 
Freq. stability ? ? ?
Tuning steps ? ? ?

Receiver

RX-range 10-160 m + WARC 430-440 MHz 29-54 / 108-174 / 216-512 / 806-912 MHz
Modulations AM   FM   CW   SSB   FSK   FM   AM   FM  
Sensitivity AM: 1 µV (10 dB (S+N)/N)
FM: 0.4 µV (20 dB quieting)
SSB: 0.25 µV (10 dB (S+N)/N)
CW: 0.18 µV (10 dB (S+N)/N)
? ?
Selectivity AM/SSB/CW: 2.7 kHz (-6 dB), 4.8 kHz (-60 dB) ? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system Double conversion superheterodyne Superheterodyne Triple conversion superheterodyne
IF-freqs. 1st: 8.2 MHz
2nd: 455 KHz
? ?
Image rejection >70 dB ? ?
Audio output ? Internal speaker 1.8 W

Transmitter

TX-range 10-160 m + WARC 430-440 MHz -
Modulations AM   FM   CW   SSB   FSK   FM   -
RF-output 100 W 5 W max ?

Connections

Antenna SO-239 BNC BNC
Impedance 50Ω 50Ω 50Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. Mains ? V DC 13.8V DC
Current RX ? ? 500 mA max
TX ? ? -

Physical

Manufactured Between 1982 and 1984 in Japan Between 1991 and 199x in Japan Between 1997 and 199x
Dimensions 368 × 129 × 310 mm
(14.49 × 5.08 × 12.20 in)
? 265 × 90 × 188 mm
(10.43 × 3.54 × 7.40 in)
Weight 15.00 kg (33.1 lbs) ? 1.73 kg (3.8 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Handheld Mobile

Other features

Memories ? ? 300 channels in 10 bank(s) @ 100 channels/second
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features Tube hybrid
VOX
? Turbo-search (300 chn/sec)
PC programmable
S-meter
CTCSS,
Rotary control
Auto-store
Weather alert
Auto-sort,
Backlight
Tape record control
Data skip
Duplicate frequency alert
20 search-skip frequencies
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN YAESU-FT-000102 YAESU-FT-000076 UNIDEN-BEARCAT-BC000895XLT