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Mobile VHF Transceiver
Handheld VHF Transceiver
SmartSDR transceiver

General

HAM bands 2m  2m  160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m 
Freq. stability ? ? 0.02 p.p.m. OCXO
Tuning steps ? ? 1 Hz

Receiver

RX-range 136-174 / 400-479 MHz 136-174 MHz 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations FM   FM   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
Sensitivity ? ? ?
Selectivity ? ? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system ? ? SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection ? ? ≥ 100 dB
Audio output ? ? 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

TX-range 144-146 MHz (Europe)
144-148 MHz (USA)
144-146 MHz (Europe except Italy)
144-148 MHz (Italy and the rest of the world)
160-6 m
Modulations FM   FM   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
RF-output High: 50 W, Medium: 10 W, Low: 5 W High: 6 W, Low: 1 W 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM

Connections

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

Electrical

Power req. 13.8V DC 9.6V DC 13.8V DC ± 15%
Current RX Max 1 A 25-210 mA 1.5 A
TX Max 10.5 A 0.7-1.6 A 23 A

Physical

Manufactured Between 1994 and 19xx Between 19xx and 19xx Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions 140 × 40 × 171 mm
(5.51 × 1.57 × 6.73 in)
58 × 141 × 32 mm
(2.28 × 5.55 × 1.26 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight 930 gr (2.1 lbs) 420 gr (14.8 oz) without battery 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Mobile Handheld Headless

Other features

Memories ? ? ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features 9K6 packet ready ? 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
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN ICOM-IC-000281H ICOM-IC-T000002H FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006700