{"id":10267,"date":"2014-07-20T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10267"},"modified":"2014-07-20T07:30:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T11:30:17","slug":"swling-on-a-mountain-with-the-tecsun-r1212a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/swling-on-a-mountain-with-the-tecsun-r1212a\/","title":{"rendered":"SWLing on a mountain with the Tecsun R1212A"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tecsun-R1212A-MtMitchell\"<\/a>Last week we visited Mount Mitchell<\/a>,\u00a0the highest elevation in North America east of the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n

We enjoyed a leisurely picnic at the mountain’s state park, and since I had a little extra time, I pulled out the Tecsun R1212A I carry in my messenger bag, and tuned to Deutsche Welle. Even though propagation wasn’t superb that day, the little Tecsun did a fine job pulling in a DW service targeting Africa.<\/p>\n

\"Tecsun-R1212A-MtMitchell-2\"<\/a>My friend\u00a0the Professor<\/a>\u00a0had convinced me to purchase the\u00a0R1212A as an open-box deal\u00a0Anon-Co listed several months ago, and I’m glad he did. Not only does it have great shortwave sensitivity, but it has superb AM (medium wave) reception–indeed, it’s one of the best portables I have that can null out unwanted MW signals.<\/p>\n

The Tecsun R1212A is no longer produced, but occasionally they pop up on eBay (click here to search for one<\/a>\"\").<\/p>\n

Anyone else have this little portable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week we visited Mount Mitchell,\u00a0the highest elevation in North America east of the Mississippi River. We enjoyed a leisurely picnic at the mountain’s state park, and since I had a little extra time, I pulled out the Tecsun R1212A I carry in my messenger bag, and tuned to Deutsche Welle. Even though propagation wasn’t […]<\/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":[373,3,26,43,1154],"tags":[4097,3123,374,34,479,3122,3124,1294],"class_list":["post-10267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","category-travel","tag-am","tag-analog","tag-medium-wave","tag-shortwave","tag-tecsun","tag-tecsun-r1212a","tag-tecsun-r1212a-review","tag-the-professor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2FB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10571,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/picnicking-and-swling-by-the-lake\/","url_meta":{"origin":10267,"position":0},"title":"Picnicking and SWLing by the lake","author":"Thomas","date":"August 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, while traveling\u00a0near Oklahoma City, I stopped by Lake Thunderbird State Park for lunch and a little shortwave listening. 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