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Mobile VHF Transceiver
Mobile Transceiver
SmartSDR transceiver

General

HAM bands ? 11m (CB)  160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m 
Freq. stability ? ? 0.5 p.p.m. TCXO
Tuning steps ? Channelized 1 Hz

Receiver

RX-range 140-150 MHz 11 m 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations FM   AM   AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
Sensitivity ? ? CW Noise floor (MDS), 400 Hz BW
0.137 MHz: –125 dBm
0.475 MHz: –133 dBm
1.0 MHz: –136 dBm
3.5 MHz: –136 dBm
14 MHz: –136 dBm
50 MHz –120 –126 –136
70 MHz –116 –123 –133
AM 10 dB (S+N)/N, 1 kHz, 30% modulation, 6 kHz BW
1.0 MHz: 1.00 µV
3.8 MHz: 1.00 µV
29.0 MHz: 1.19 µV
50.4 MHz: 1.38 µV
FM 12 dB SINAD, 16 kHz BW
29 MHz: 0.40 µV
52 MHz: 0.44 µV
70 MHz: 0.59 µV
Selectivity ? ? 400 Hz or more, software defined
Filters ? ? Software defined
Receiver system ? ? SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection ? ? ≥ 100 dB
Audio output ? ? 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

TX-range 140-150 MHz 11 m 160-6 m
Modulations FM   AM   AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
RF-output High: 25 W, Low: 5 W ? 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM

Connections

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

Electrical

Power req. 13.8V DC ? 13.8V DC ± 15%
Current RX Max 1.5 A ? 1.5 A
TX Max 8 A ? 23 A

Physical

Manufactured Between 19xx and 19xx Between 196x and 196x in USA Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions 140 × 38 × 172 mm
(5.51 × 1.50 × 6.77 in)
? 330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight 1,000 gr (2.2 lbs) ? 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Mobile Mobile Headless

Other features

Memories ? 22 channels in 1 bank(s) ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Citizen Band (27Mc) Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? ? SDR (Software Defined Radio)
Ethernet

CPU / DSP: TMS320DM8168CYG2
RISC processor: 1.2 GHz ARM CortexTM-A8/NEONTM
DSP processor: 1.0 GHz TMS320C647x 32-bit FP
DSP Floating Point Operations: 78 GFLOPS
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN SANTEC-FM-000240 E.F.-JOHNSON-MESSENGER-000130A FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006500