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Desktop VHF Transceiver
Mobile VHF/UHF Transceiver
SmartSDR transceiver

General

HAM bands 2m  2m  70cm  160m  80m  40m  30m (WARC)  20m  17m (WARC)  15m  12m (WARC)  11m (CB)  6m  10m 
Freq. stability ? +/- 10 p.p.m. 0.02 p.p.m. OCXO
Tuning steps 5 / 1 / 0.1 kHz 5 / 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 50 / 100 and 200 kHz 1 Hz

Receiver

RX-range 144-146 MHz 118-174 / 440-450 MHz 30 kHz – 77 MHz
Modulations FM   CW   SSB   AM   FM   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
Sensitivity SSB/CW: Better than 0.5 µV (10 dB S+N/N)
FM: Better than 0.6 µV for 20 dB noise quieting
Less than 0.18 µV for 12dB SINAD (144/430 bands only) ?
Selectivity SSB/CW: 2.4 kHz (-6 dB), 4.8 kHz (-60 dB)
FM: 15 kHz (-6 dB), 30 kHz (-60 dB)
12 kHz (-6 dB), 30 kHz (-60 dB) ?
Filters ? ? ?
Receiver system ? Double conversion superheterodyne SDR, Direct Digital Sampling
IF-freqs. ? 1st: 46.05 MHz
2nd: 450 kHz
?
Image rejection More than 60 dB Better than 60 dB ≥ 100 dB
Audio output ? 2 W at 10% 1W diagnostic speaker

Transmitter

TX-range 144-146 MHz 144-148 / 440-450 MHz (Asia) 160-6 m
Modulations FM   CW   SSB   FM   AM   N-FM   CW   USB   LSB   DSB   RTTY  
RF-output 1-10 W High: 50 / 55 W, Medium: 15 / 15 W, Low: 5 / 5 W 1-100W SSB, CW, FM, RTTY, DIGITAL; 1-30W AM

Connections

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

Electrical

Power req. 13.8V DC or mains 13.8 V DC +/-15% 13.8V DC ± 15%
Current RX Max 0.6 A 0.8 A 1.5 A
TX Max 2.3 A 12 A max 23 A

Physical

Manufactured Between 1980 and 198x in Japan Between 2003 and 200x Between 2013 and 20xx in USA
Dimensions 241 × 111 × 264 mm
(9.49 × 4.37 × 10.39 in)
141 × 40 × 185 mm
(5.55 × 1.57 × 7.28 in)
330 × 305 × 102 mm
(12.99 × 12.01 × 4.02 in)
Weight 5.00 kg (11.0 lbs) 1.20 kg (2.6 lbs) 5.90 kg (13.0 lbs)
Form factor Base Station Mobile Headless

Other features

Memories 3 channels in 1 bank(s) 500 channels in 1 bank(s) ?
Usage Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators Amateur / Ham radio operators
Features ? CTCSS & DTMF. Multi color display. 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-000251E ICOM-IC-000208H FLEXRADIO-FLEX-006700