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Desktop Shortwave Transceiver
SmartSDR 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 
Freq. stability ? 0.5 p.p.m. TCXO
Tuning steps ? 1 Hz

Receiver

RX-range 0.1-30 MHz 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   SSB   RTTY   FAX   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 10-160 m + WARC 160-6 m
Modulations CW   SSB   RTTY   FAX   AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
RF-output 5-100 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 or mains 13.8V DC ± 15%
Current RX ? 1.5 A
TX ? 23 A

Physical

Manufactured Between 1986 and 1992 in Japan Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions ? 330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight ? 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 JRC-JST-000125 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006500