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Desktop Shortwave receiver
Desktop Shortwave receiver
SmartSDR receiver | HF/VHF

General

HAM bands ? 160m  80m  40m  20m  15m  10m  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 1.5-30 MHz (230 – 530 kHz optional) 10-160 m (2 m option) 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   AM   FM   CW   SSB   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
Sensitivity CW: 0.2 µV (6 dB S/N)
AM: 1.6 µV (10 dB S/N)
? ?
Selectivity Variable 0.3-5 kHz (–6 dB)
Formfactor -6/-60 dB: 1:4 at 5 kHz bandwidth
? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system Single conversion, 10 tubes ? conversion superheterodyne SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. 1st: 1326 kHz ? ?
Image rejection > 60 dB ? ≥ 100 dB
Audio output 2 W/4000 ohms 1 W 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

TX-range - - -
Modulations - - AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
RF-output ? ? ?

Connections

Antenna - - BNC + SO-239
Impedance 60Ω 50/75Ω 5-500Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. Mains (110/125/220 V AC +/-10% 40-60 Hz, 65 W and 220V DC +/-10%, 85 W) Mains (100-234 V AC) Mains (25-264 V AC, 47-63 Hz)
Current RX ? ? 20 W
TX - - -

Physical

Manufactured Between 1952 and 1957 in West Germany Between 1968 and 19xx in Japan (made by Yaesu for Sommerkamp) Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions 552 × 356 × 340 mm
(21.73 × 14.02 × 13.39 in)
370 × 160 × 290 mm
(14.57 × 6.30 × 11.42 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight 44.00 kg (97.1 lbs) ? 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Base Station Headless

Other features

Memories ? ? ?
Usage Marine / Navy Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? ? 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 SIEMENS-000745-E303 SOMMERKAMP-FRDX-000500 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006700R