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HF 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 0.15-30 MHz 10-160 m (2 m option) 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   SSB   AM   FM   CW   SSB   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
Sensitivity ? ? ?
Selectivity ? ? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system ? ? conversion superheterodyne SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection ? ? ≥ 100 dB
Audio output ? 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 50 Ω 50/75Ω 5-500Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. 13.8V DC or mains Mains (100-234 V AC) Mains (25-264 V AC, 47-63 Hz)
Current RX ? ? 20 W
TX - - -

Physical

Manufactured Between 1975 and 1980 Between 1968 and 19xx in Japan (made by Yaesu for Sommerkamp) Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions ? 370 × 160 × 290 mm
(14.57 × 6.30 × 11.42 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight ? ? 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Unknown Base Station Headless

Other features

Memories ? ? ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators 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 RADIOSHACK-/-REALISTIC-DX-000160 SOMMERKAMP-FRDX-000500 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006700R