{"id":10496,"date":"2014-08-11T07:25:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T11:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10496"},"modified":"2014-08-11T07:25:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T11:25:19","slug":"field-recording-with-the-tecsun-pl-380-and-transcend-mp330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/field-recording-with-the-tecsun-pl-380-and-transcend-mp330\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Recording with the Tecsun PL-380 and Transcend MP330"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PL-380.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10499\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PL-380.jpg\" alt=\"PL-380\" width=\"618\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PL-380.jpg 618w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PL-380-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PL-380-100x84.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a>S<em>WLing Post<\/em> reader, <a title=\"London Shortwave\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LondonShortwave\" target=\"_blank\">London Shortwave<\/a>, shared photos of his portable recording kit <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LondonShortwave\/status\/498583842979315712\" target=\"_blank\">on Twitter<\/a> yesterday.\u00a0It consists of a <a title=\"Check out the PL-380 on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004H912FC\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=B004H912FC&amp;link_code=as3&amp;tag=swlcom01-20\" target=\"_blank\">Tecsun PL-380<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B007TGVU0W\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=B007TGVU0W&amp;link_code=as3&amp;tag=swlcom01-20\" target=\"_blank\">Transcend MP330<\/a>, in ear headphones, and a simple clip-on antenna (supplied with the PL-380). He recorded\u00a0<em>Radio New Zealand International<\/em> with this gear.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\" data-boourl=\"https:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/2386338-radio-new-zealand-int-received-in-london-uk\/embed\/v2?eid=AQAAAM0I6FOiaSQA\" data-boowidth=\"100%\" data-maxheight=\"150\" data-iframestyle=\"background-color:transparent; display:block; box-shadow:0 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); min-width:320px; max-width:700px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/2386338-radio-new-zealand-int-received-in-london-uk\">listen to \u2018Radio New Zealand Int. received in London, UK\u2019 on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"https:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/cdn\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Transcend-MP330.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10501\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Transcend-MP330.jpg\" alt=\"Transcend-MP330\" width=\"522\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Transcend-MP330.jpg 522w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Transcend-MP330-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Transcend-MP330-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Transcend-MP330-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love the compact form factor of the Transcend MP330&#8211;ideal for field recording. I&#8217;m curious if there are other high-capacity USB memory\/recording sticks on the market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MacBook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10498\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MacBook.jpg\" alt=\"MacBook\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MacBook.jpg 700w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MacBook-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MacBook-100x66.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The PL-380 is a superb ultralight radio<\/strong>; <a title=\"The Tecsun PL-380: a great travel radio\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/the-tecsun-pl-380-a-great-travel-radio\/\" target=\"_blank\">my favorite small travel radio<\/a>, in fact.\u00a0The\u00a0PL-380\u00a0can be found for about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004H912FC\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=B004H912FC&amp;link_code=as3&amp;tag=swlcom01-20\" target=\"_blank\">$42 US shipped via Amazon<\/a>; an impressive value.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to London Shortwave for sharing images of his\u00a0ultralight DXing &amp; recording kit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWLing Post reader, London Shortwave, shared photos of his portable recording kit on Twitter yesterday.\u00a0It consists of a Tecsun PL-380, Transcend MP330, in ear headphones, and a simple clip-on antenna (supplied with the PL-380). He recorded\u00a0Radio New Zealand International with this gear. listen to \u2018Radio New Zealand Int. received in London, UK\u2019 on Audioboo I [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,26,746,43],"tags":[2504,2704,480,2831,2832,479,478,3171],"class_list":["post-10496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radios","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-londonshortwave","tag-london-shortwave","tag-pl-380","tag-portable-shortwave","tag-shortwave-portables","tag-tecsun","tag-tecsun-pl-380","tag-transcend-mp330"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Ji","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3639,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/the-tecsun-pl-380-a-great-travel-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":10496,"position":0},"title":"The Tecsun PL-380: a great travel radio","author":"Thomas","date":"May 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post reader, Alan, commented on our \"most durable radios for travel\" post: You should include the Tecsun PL-380 [on] the list. 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I conducted this test on the three radios pictured above: the Tecsun PL-310ET, the CountyComm\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Tecsun-ShootOut","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Tecsun-ShootOut.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Tecsun-ShootOut.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Tecsun-ShootOut.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Tecsun-ShootOut.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Tecsun-ShootOut.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11220,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/tecsun-pl-380-displaying-temperature-in-fahrenheit\/","url_meta":{"origin":10496,"position":2},"title":"Tecsun PL-380: Displaying temperature in Fahrenheit","author":"Thomas","date":"October 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I have owned the Tecsun PL-380 for years now. When my buddy Mike (K8RAT) recently asked if the temperature display could be switched from Celsius to Fahrenheit, I gave him a firm \"no\" as a response. A few hours later, Mike wrote back: \"Just found out that the PL -380\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;How To&quot;","block_context":{"text":"How To","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/how-to\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Tecsun-PL380-Temperature","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Tecsun-PL380-Temperature.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Tecsun-PL380-Temperature.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Tecsun-PL380-Temperature.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13006,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/tecsun-pl-380-murrays-new-travel-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":10496,"position":3},"title":"Tecsun PL-380: Murray&#8217;s new travel radio","author":"Thomas","date":"April 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post reader, Murray, recently took the Tecsun PL-380 with him on a trip to view the solar eclipse and then to\u00a0Morocco for an extended excursion. 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