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Desktop Shortwave receiver
Desktop Shortwave Transmitter
SmartSDR transceiver

General

HAM bands ? 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 ? Continuous 1 Hz

Receiver

RX-range 480 kHz - 30 MHz in five bands - 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations AM   CW   - AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
Sensitivity ? ? ?
Selectivity ? ? ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system Single Conversion Superheterodyne, 15 tubes ? SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. ? ? ?
Image rejection ? ? ≥ 100 dB
Audio output ? ? 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

TX-range - 10-80 m 160-6 m
Modulations - CW   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
RF-output ? 60 W 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM

Connections

Antenna - SO-239 BNC + SO-239
Impedance 50 Ω 50/75Ω 5-500Ω
Other - - -

Electrical

Power req. Mains Mains 13.8V DC ± 15%
Current RX 80 W - 1.5 A
TX - ? 23 A

Physical

Manufactured Between 1952 and 1962 in Great Britain Between 19xx and 19xx Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions 426 × 222 × 381 mm
(16.77 × 8.74 × 15.00 in)
? 330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight 21.30 kg (47.0 lbs) ? 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Base Station Headless

Other features

Memories ? None ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features • ¼" Head. Jack • S-Meter • Rack Handles • Calibrator 100 kHz • RF Gain • BFO ±3 kHz • Mute • 140:1 Tune Ratio • Standby • NL • Dial Lamp • Dimmer (back panel) • AVC ON/OFF • Flywheel Tuning ? 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 EDDYSTONE-000680X EICO-000720 FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006700