{"id":11220,"date":"2014-10-30T09:37:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T13:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11220"},"modified":"2014-10-30T09:37:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T13:37:01","slug":"tecsun-pl-380-displaying-temperature-in-fahrenheit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/tecsun-pl-380-displaying-temperature-in-fahrenheit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tecsun PL-380: Displaying temperature in Fahrenheit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Tecsun-PL380-Temperature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11224\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Tecsun-PL380-Temperature.jpg\" alt=\"Tecsun-PL380-Temperature\" width=\"640\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Tecsun-PL380-Temperature.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Tecsun-PL380-Temperature-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;no&#8221; as a response.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours later, Mike wrote back:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Just found out that the PL -380 will toggle between F and C temperature reading. Push and hold the &#8220;3&#8221; button with radio turned off. Cool!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I just tried it and, as you can see, it works brilliantly. Thanks, Mike!<\/p>\n<p>(Note to self: Start responding to this sort of inquiry with a softer &#8220;no&#8221; in the future!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;no&#8221; as a response. A few hours later, Mike wrote back: &#8220;Just found out that the PL -380 will toggle between F and [&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":[627,139,26,43],"tags":[480,479,478,3358],"class_list":["post-11220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-radio-modifications","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-pl-380","tag-tecsun","tag-tecsun-pl-380","tag-tecsun-pl-380-temperature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2UY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10496,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/field-recording-with-the-tecsun-pl-380-and-transcend-mp330\/","url_meta":{"origin":11220,"position":0},"title":"Field Recording with the Tecsun PL-380 and Transcend MP330","author":"Thomas","date":"August 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"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). 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A couple of days after the eclipse we flew to Cassablanca\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Tecsun PL-380 in the Morocco desert. 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