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Base Station Marine Receiver
Handheld VHF Transceiver
Desktop Shortwave receiver

General

HAM bands 160m  80m  60m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  10m  2000m  1.25m  ?
Freq. stability ? ? ?
Tuning steps ? ? ?

Receiver

RX-range 10 kHz-30 MHz divided into 11 bands 220 MHz 150-4000 kHz in 4 bands
Modulations AM   CW   USB   LSB   FM   AM   CW   SSB  
Sensitivity ? ? ?
Selectivity ? ? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system Double/triple conversion superheterodyne ? ?
IF-freqs. 1st: 48050 kHz
2nd: 5645 kHz
? ?
Image rejection ? ? ?
Audio output Internal speaker ? ?

Transmitter

TX-range - 220 MHz -
Modulations - FM   -
RF-output ? ? ?

Connections

Antenna - BNC -
Impedance 50/200Ω 50Ω 50Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. 24V DC or mains ?V DC 12/24/32 V DC 9 V DC from internal batteries
Current RX ? ? 100-300 mA
TX - ? -

Physical

Manufactured Between 1981 and 19xx in USA Between 198x and 198x Between 1965 and 196x in Denmark
Dimensions 480 × 133 × 356 mm
(18.90 × 5.24 × 14.02 in)
? 335 × 220 × 150 mm
(13.19 × 8.66 × 5.91 in)
Weight 8.60 kg (19.0 lbs) ? 6.50 kg (14.3 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Handheld Base Station

Other features

Memories None ? ?
Usage Marine / Navy Amateur / Ham radio operators Marine / Navy
Features ? ? Direction Finding function on all bands
BFO
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN DRAKE-RR-000003 STANDARD-C-000288A SAILOR-000046T