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Desktop Shortwave Receiver
SmartSDR transceiver

General

HAM bands ? 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 ? 1 Hz

Receiver

RX-range 0.05-30 MHz 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations AM   FM   CW   SSB   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 Blanc-tone receiver SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. 1st: 10.7 MHz
2nd: 455 kHz
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Image rejection ? ≥ 100 dB
Audio output ? 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

TX-range - 160-6 m
Modulations - AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
RF-output ? 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM

Connections

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

Electrical

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

Physical

Manufactured Between 2013 and 201x in Switzerland Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions 300 × 110 × 180 mm
(11.81 × 4.33 × 7.09 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight 1.40 kg (3.1 lbs) 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Headless

Other features

Memories ? ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators 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 STAMPFL-MINI-SWRX FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006500