{"id":12396,"date":"2015-02-20T13:06:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T17:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12396"},"modified":"2015-02-20T13:06:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T17:06:01","slug":"tecsun-pl-680-reader-surveys-closing-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/tecsun-pl-680-reader-surveys-closing-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Tecsun PL-680: Reader surveys closing today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TecsunPL680andPL660.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12275\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TecsunPL680andPL660.jpg\" alt=\"TecsunPL680andPL660\" width=\"650\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TecsunPL680andPL660.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TecsunPL680andPL660-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t had a chance to weigh in on the Tecsun PL-660\/PL-680 comparison surveys, you will need to do so by 23:00 UTC today.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on the Tecsun PL-680 review and need completed surveys for graphs\/charts. The review should be posted this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t voted yet, here are links to each receiver\u00a0survey with comparative audio samples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Reader Survey: Comparing the Tecsun PL-660 and PL-680 on AM shortwave\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/reader-survey-comparing-the-tecsun-pl-660-and-pl-680-on-am-shortwave\/\">Shortwave AM survey<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Reader Survey: Comparing the Tecsun PL-680 and PL-660 synchronous detection\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/reader-survey-comparing-the-tecsun-pl-680-and-pl-660-synchronous-detection\/\">Shortwave AM Synchronous Detection Survey<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Reader Survey: Comparing the Tecsun PL-680 and PL-660 on medium wave (AM)\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/reader-survey-comparing-the-tecsun-pl-680-and-pl-660-on-medium-wave-am\/\">Medium Wave Survey<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Responses for these surveys has been, quite frankly, <em>amazing<\/em>!<\/strong>\u00a0At time of publishing this post, <strong>we&#8217;ve received 367 individual survey responses!<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t had a chance to weigh in on the Tecsun PL-660\/PL-680 comparison surveys, you will need to do so by 23:00 UTC today. I&#8217;m working on the Tecsun PL-680 review and need completed surveys for graphs\/charts. The review should be posted this weekend. If you haven&#8217;t voted yet, here are links to each [&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":[836,3,26,129,43],"tags":[332,3457,479,330,3456],"class_list":["post-12396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","category-news","category-radios","category-reviews","category-shortwave-radio","tag-pl-660","tag-pl-680","tag-tecsun","tag-tecsun-pl-660","tag-tecsun-pl-680"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3dW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12331,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/reader-survey-comparing-the-tecsun-pl-680-and-pl-660-on-medium-wave-am\/","url_meta":{"origin":12396,"position":0},"title":"Reader Survey: Comparing the Tecsun PL-680 and PL-660 on medium wave (AM)","author":"Thomas","date":"February 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"[Update: Please note that this survey has been closed, but the audio samples--labeled Radio A and Radio B--will remain to allow others the opportunity to make an evaluation prior to reading the PL-680 review.] [Update 2: The PL-680 review and readers' survey results have now been posted! 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An early photo of the Tecsun PL-680 revealed how very similar it is, indeed,\u00a0to the Tecsun PL-600, which has been on the market for many years. Moreover, the features of\u00a0PL-680,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Tecsun-PL-680","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tecsun-PL-680.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tecsun-PL-680.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tecsun-PL-680.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12313,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/reader-survey-comparing-the-tecsun-pl-680-and-pl-660-synchronous-detection\/","url_meta":{"origin":12396,"position":2},"title":"Reader Survey: Comparing the Tecsun PL-680 and PL-660 synchronous detection","author":"Thomas","date":"February 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"[Update: Please note that this survey has been closed, but the audio samples--labeled Radio A and Radio B--will remain to allow others the opportunity to make an evaluation prior to reading the PL-680 review.] [Update 2: The PL-680 review and readers' survey results have now been posted! 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The PL-680 is now a great radio; I think now one of the best! 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