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Base Station CB Transceiver
SmartSDR transceiver
Amateur Portable Transceiver

General

HAM bands 11m (CB)  160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m  2m  1.25m  70cm 
Freq. stability ? 0.5 p.p.m. TCXO ?
Tuning steps Channelized 1 Hz 2.5 / 5 / 6.5 / 10 / 12.5 / 20 / 25 / 50 kHz

Receiver

RX-range 26.965-27.255 MHz 30 kHz – 77 MHz 153-279 / 520-1710 kHz / 2.3-30 / 27 (CB) / 64-108 / 136-174 / 400-480 / 840-999 MHz
Modulations AM   AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   AM   FM   CW   USB   LSB  
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
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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 26.965-27.255 MHz 160-6 m 136-520 MHz
Modulations AM   AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   FM  
RF-output 4 W 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM 5 W

Connections

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

Electrical

Power req. 13.8 V DC 13.8V DC ± 15% 2600 mAh Li-Ion
Current RX ? 1.5 A ?
TX ? 23 A ?

Physical

Manufactured Between 1971 and 1973 in Japan Between 2013 and 20xx in USA Between 2025 and 20xx in China
Dimensions ? 330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
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Weight ? 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs) ?
Form factor Base Station Headless Portable

Other features

Memories 23 channels in 1 bank(s) ? 1024 channels in 1 bank(s)
Usage Citizen Band (27Mc) Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features Digital readout 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
NOAA channels
GPS option
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN REGENCY-FORMULA-000023 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006500 RADTEL-RT-000620