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Marine Shortwave receiver
SmartSDR transceiver
3 Band QRP CW kit

General

HAM bands 160m  80m  160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  6m 
Freq. stability ? 0.02 p.p.m. OCXO ?
Tuning steps ? 1 Hz ?

Receiver

RX-range 150-4200 kHz in 4 bands 30 kHz – 77 MHz 7-16 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   SSB   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   CW  
Sensitivity ? ? ?
Selectivity ? ? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system ? SDR, Direct Digital Sampling ?
IF-freqs. ? ? IF-DDS: 60 MHz
Image rejection ? ≥ 100 dB ?
Audio output ? 1W diagnostic speaker ?

Transmitter

TX-range - 160-6 m 7.0-7.3 / 10.1-10.15 / 14.0-14.3 MHz
Modulations - AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   CW  
RF-output ? 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM 4-5 W @ 13.8 V

Connections

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

Electrical

Power req. 12/24 V DC, 110/220 V AC 13.8V DC ± 15% 9-16 V DC
Current RX ? 1.5 A 120-130 mA
TX - 23 A 800 mA

Physical

Manufactured Between 1972 and 197x in Denmark Between 2013 and 20xx in USA Between 2013 and 201x
Dimensions 492 × 232 × 220 mm
(19.37 × 9.13 × 8.66 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
120 × 51 × 103 mm
(4.72 × 2.01 × 4.06 in)
Weight 14.00 kg (30.9 lbs) 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs) 420 gr (14.8 oz)
Form factor Base Station Headless Mobile

Other features

Memories 23 channels in 1 bank(s) ? 10 channels in 1 bank(s)
Usage Marine / Navy Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features 23 crystal controlled frequencies SDR (Software Defined Radio)
Ethernet

CPU / DSP: TMS320DM8168CYG4
RISC processor: 1.4 GHz ARM CortexTM-A8/NEON
DSP processor: 1.2 GHz TMS320C647x 32-bit FP
DSP Floating Point Operations: 121 GFLOPS
Built-in keyer
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN SAILOR-R000105 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006700 YOUKITS-EK-000001A