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

General

HAM bands 70cm  ? 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 430-440 MHz ? 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations FM   CW   USB   LSB   AM   FM   APCO-25   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
Sensitivity ? ? ?
Selectivity ? ? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system ? Triple conversion PLL super-heterodyne SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. ? 1st: 380.8 MHz
2nd: 21.4 MHz
3rd: 455 kHz
?
Image rejection ? ? ≥ 100 dB
Audio output ? 250 mW 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

TX-range 430-440 MHz - 160-6 m
Modulations FM   CW   USB   LSB   - AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
RF-output 10 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 6V DC (4 ea. "AA" alkaline, NiCAD or NiMH) 9V DC 500 mA regulated power supply 13.8V DC ± 15%
Current RX ? ? 1.5 A
TX ? - 23 A

Physical

Manufactured Between 198x and 198x Between 200x and 200x in China Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions ? 65 × 145 × 42 mm
(2.56 × 5.71 × 1.65 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight ? 240 gr (8.5 oz) 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Handheld Headless

Other features

Memories ? 1800 channels in 1 bank(s) @ 55 channels/second ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? CTCSS / DCS
Multi trunking (Motorola, EDACS, LTR and P25)
SAME / SKYWARN
"Object Oriented" programming
USB computer interface
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-000371 RADIOSHACK-/-REALISTIC-ADV000801 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006700