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Handheld HF/VHF/UHF Scanner / receiver
Handheld VHF Transceiver
SmartSDR transceiver

General

HAM bands ? 2m  160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m 
Freq. stability 6 ppm (-10C to +60C) ? 0.02 p.p.m. OCXO
Tuning steps 5 / 6.25 / 8.33* / 9* / 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 50 / 100 kHz ? 1 Hz

Receiver

RX-range 0.150-1310 MHz (cellular blocked in USA; some ranges blocked in France) 136-174 MHz 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations AM   FM   W-FM   FM   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
Sensitivity ? ? ?
Selectivity ? ? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system Triple conversion superheterodyne ? SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. 1st: 266.7 MHz
2nd: 19.65 MHz
3rd: 450 kHz
? ?
Image rejection ? ? ≥ 100 dB
Audio output 100mW at 10% distortion, 8 ohms ? 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

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

Connections

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

Electrical

Power req. 2.4-3V DC (2R6/AA) or max 6V DC (5%) external 9.6V DC 13.8V DC ± 15%
Current RX 41 mA (standby), 120 mA (typical), 170 mA (max) 25-210 mA 1.5 A
TX - 0.7-1.6 A 23 A

Physical

Manufactured Between 2002 and 200x in Japan Between 19xx and 19xx Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions 58 × 86 × 27 mm
(2.28 × 3.39 × 1.06 in)
58 × 141 × 32 mm
(2.28 × 5.55 × 1.26 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight 185 gr (6.5 oz) 420 gr (14.8 oz) without battery 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Handheld Handheld Headless

Other features

Memories 1250 channels in 1 bank(s) @ 15 channels/second ? ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features CTCSS & DTCS
PC-programmable via USB
Data-cloning
Build-in battery charger
Rotary frequency dial
Ferrite bar antenna for MW
Frequency shift for duplex transmissions
? 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-R000005 ICOM-IC-T000002H FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006700