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Desktop Shortwave receiver
Handheld VHF/UHF Scanner / receiver
Mobile Shortwave Transceiver

General

HAM bands 80m  40m  20m  15m  11m (CB)  6m  2m  1.25m  70cm  33cm  23cm  10m  160m  80m  60m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  10m 
Freq. stability ? ? ?
Tuning steps Continuous 5 / 6.25 / 7.5 / 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 25 / 50 / 100 kHz 100 Hz

Receiver

RX-range 0.54-31 MHz 25-54 / 108-174 / 216-225 / 400-512 / 806-956 / 1240-1300 MHz 1.5-30 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   SSB   AM   FM   N-FM   AM   CW   SSB  
Sensitivity ? ? ?
Selectivity 4.5 kHz ? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system Double conversion superheterodyne Triple conversion superheterodyne ?
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection ? ? ?
Audio output Requires external speaker 240 mW, 8 ohm requires headphones / external speaker

Transmitter

TX-range - - 1.5-30 MHz
Modulations - - AM   CW   SSB  
RF-output ? ? 40 W, 25 W, 5 W (PEP)

Connections

Antenna - BNC BNC + Proprietary (military)
Impedance ? 50Ω 50Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. Mains 3V DC battery, 12V DC external 20-32V DC (28V nominal)
Current RX ? 500 mA 30 W
TX - - 140 W

Physical

Manufactured Between 1958 and 1960 in USA Between 2004 and 20xx Between 197x and 20xx in MEL Communications Ltd in Crawley, England
Dimensions 482 × 266 × 330 mm
(18.98 × 10.47 × 12.99 in)
70 × 114 × 44 mm
(2.76 × 4.49 × 1.73 in)
230 × 220 × 336 mm
(9.06 × 8.66 × 13.23 in)
Weight 17.00 kg (37.5 lbs) 220 gr (7.8 oz) 26.00 kg (57.4 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Handheld Mobile

Other features

Memories None 1600 channels in 1000 bank(s) @ 100 channels/second ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Military communication
Features SP-200 speaker TrunkTracking III, tracks Motorola, EDACS and LTR
Turbo Search (300 steps per second)
Dynamic memory
Service Search
Computer interface
Attenuator
SAME w/FIPS
2 alpha-numeric Lines
16 char alpha-tags
CTCSS/DCS sql & search
Rotary control
Auto store
Beep alert
Data skip
Channel Alert
Radio cloning
Backlit display
Pager Skip
Squelch backlight
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Accessories ? ? ?
MPN HAMMARLUND-HQ-000160 UNIDEN-BEARCAT-BC000246T CLANSMAN-VRC-000321