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Military Transceiver
SmartSDR transceiver
Dual Power Auto Tuner | 300 / 150 W

General

HAM bands ? 160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m  160m  80m  60m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  10m 
Freq. stability ? 0.5 p.p.m. TCXO ?
Tuning steps 50 kHz 1 Hz ?

Receiver

RX-range 108-151.95 MHz 30 kHz – 77 MHz 1.8-30 MHz
Modulations AM   AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   All mode  
Sensitivity ? CW Noise floor (MDS), 400 Hz BW
0.137 MHz: –125 dBm
0.475 MHz: –133 dBm
1.0 MHz: –136 dBm
3.5 MHz: –136 dBm
14 MHz: –136 dBm
50 MHz –120 –126 –136
70 MHz –116 –123 –133
AM 10 dB (S+N)/N, 1 kHz, 30% modulation, 6 kHz BW
1.0 MHz: 1.00 µV
3.8 MHz: 1.00 µV
29.0 MHz: 1.19 µV
50.4 MHz: 1.38 µV
FM 12 dB SINAD, 16 kHz BW
29 MHz: 0.40 µV
52 MHz: 0.44 µV
70 MHz: 0.59 µV
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Selectivity ? 400 Hz or more, software defined ?
Filters ? Software defined ?
Receiver system ? SDR, Direct Digital Sampling ?
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection ? ≥ 100 dB ?
Audio output ? 1W diagnostic speaker ?

Transmitter

TX-range 116-149.95 MHz 160-6 m 1.8-30 MHz
Modulations AM   AM   AM-sync   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY   All mode  
RF-output 20 W 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM 150 / 300 W

Connections

Antenna - BNC + SO-239 SO-239
Impedance 50Ω 5-500Ω 6-1600/3200Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. 28 V DC 13.8V DC ± 15% Mains or 12 V DC
Current RX ? 1.5 A 1 A @ 12 V DC
TX 3.3 A max 23 A ?

Physical

Manufactured Between 19xx and 19xx in USA Between 2013 and 20xx in USA Between 2017 and 201x
Dimensions ? 330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
254 × 70 × 228 mm
(10.00 × 2.76 × 8.98 in)
Weight ? 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs) ?
Form factor Unknown Headless Base Station

Other features

Memories 680 channels in 1 bank(s) ? 20000 channels in 1 bank(s)
Usage Military communication Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? SDR (Software Defined Radio)
Ethernet

CPU / DSP: TMS320DM8168CYG2
RISC processor: 1.2 GHz ARM CortexTM-A8/NEONTM
DSP processor: 1.0 GHz TMS320C647x 32-bit FP
DSP Floating Point Operations: 78 GFLOPS
VirtualAntenna Memory
Cross Needle + Digital SWR / Watt Meters
Accessories ? ? ?
MPN MILITARY-AN/ARC-000073A FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006500 MFJ-000993B