{"id":10027,"date":"2014-06-25T06:38:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T10:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10027"},"modified":"2014-06-25T06:38:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T10:38:21","slug":"maplin-stocks-the-tecsun-pl-660","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/maplin-stocks-the-tecsun-pl-660\/","title":{"rendered":"Maplin stocks the Tecsun PL-660"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Maplin-Tecsun-PL-660\"<\/a>If you live near a Maplin retail store in the UK<\/a>\u00a0you’ll be happy to note that they now sell\u00a0the excellent Tecsun PL-660<\/a> portable radio.<\/p>\n

Many thanks to London Shortwave<\/a> who snapped the above shot in his local Maplin store. He notes\/tweets<\/a>:\u00a0“though it’s a lot more expensive [at 99 GBP] than buying on eBay<\/a>, [it]\u00a0shows that the radio now has mainstream recognition.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you live near a Maplin retail store in the UK\u00a0you’ll be happy to note that they now sell\u00a0the excellent Tecsun PL-660 portable radio. Many thanks to London Shortwave who snapped the above shot in his local Maplin store. He notes\/tweets:\u00a0“though it’s a lot more expensive [at 99 GBP] than buying on eBay, [it]\u00a0shows that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,714,43],"tags":[3043,3042,3044,330,440],"class_list":["post-10027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radios","category-retailers","category-shortwave-radio","tag-maplin","tag-maplin-electronics","tag-shortwave-radio-retailers","tag-tecsun-pl-660","tag-uk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2BJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19604,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/intek-pl-660-on-sale-at-maplin\/","url_meta":{"origin":10027,"position":0},"title":"Intek PL-660 on sale at Maplin","author":"Thomas","date":"June 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"If you live in the UK, you might take note that the retailer, Maplin, has the Intek PL-660 on sale for 59.99 GBP. 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