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Base Station Marine Receiver
Desktop Shortwave receiver
Mobile Shortwave Transceiver

General

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

Receiver

RX-range 10 kHz-30 MHz divided into 11 bands 150-4000 kHz in 4 bands 40 m (7.0-7.3 MHz)
Modulations AM   CW   USB   LSB   AM   CW   SSB   CW   SSB  
Sensitivity ? ? ?
Selectivity ? ? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system Double/triple conversion superheterodyne ? Super-heterodyne
IF-freqs. 1st: 48050 kHz
2nd: 5645 kHz
? ?
Image rejection ? ? ?
Audio output Internal speaker ? ?

Transmitter

TX-range - - 40 m (7.0-7.3 MHz)
Modulations - - CW   SSB  
RF-output ? ? ~30 W

Connections

Antenna - - SO-239
Impedance 50/200Ω 50Ω 50/75Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. 24V DC or mains 12/24/32 V DC 9 V DC from internal batteries 13.8 V DC
Current RX ? 100-300 mA ?
TX - - ?

Physical

Manufactured Between 1981 and 19xx in USA Between 1965 and 196x in Denmark Between 197x and 197x
Dimensions 480 × 133 × 356 mm
(18.90 × 5.24 × 14.02 in)
335 × 220 × 150 mm
(13.19 × 8.66 × 5.91 in)
220 × 80 × 230 mm
(8.66 × 3.15 × 9.06 in)
Weight 8.60 kg (19.0 lbs) 6.50 kg (14.3 lbs) ?
Form factor Base Station Base Station Mobile

Other features

Memories None ? ?
Usage Marine / Navy Marine / Navy Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? Direction Finding function on all bands
BFO
?
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN DRAKE-RR-000003 SAILOR-000046T SWAN-(CUBIC)-MB-000040A