{"id":13006,"date":"2015-04-18T06:57:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T10:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=13006"},"modified":"2015-04-18T06:57:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T10:57:33","slug":"tecsun-pl-380-murrays-new-travel-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/tecsun-pl-380-murrays-new-travel-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Tecsun PL-380: Murray’s new travel radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tecsun<\/a><\/p>\n

SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Murray, recently took the Tecsun PL-380<\/a> with him on a trip to view the solar eclipse and then to\u00a0Morocco for an extended excursion. He writes:<\/p>\n

We flew out of Billund Denmark for the [solar] eclipse flight. A couple of days after the eclipse we flew to Cassablanca Morocco, where we were to join our 2 week excursion.<\/p>\n

Here is a shot of the radio [above] at our camp in the dunes south of Erfoud in south central Morocco. In total we spent 2 1\/2 weeks in Morocco and the desert was the nicest Radio quiet location I have been in. No interference what so ever! And lots of stations. It was great. The battery consumption of the PL-380 was very good. Nice unit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many thanks for sharing your thoughts on the PL-380, Murray! It must have been bliss listening to the shortwaves in such an RFI-free area.<\/p>\n

Like you, I think the PL-380<\/a> is a brilliant travel radio and one I often recommend (click here for my travel radio review<\/a>). I also travel with the Tecsun PL-310ET<\/a>\u00a0and the new\u00a0CCrane CC Skywave-<\/a>-all great compact portables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. He writes: We flew out of Billund Denmark for the [solar] eclipse flight. A couple of days after the eclipse we flew to Cassablanca Morocco, where we were to […]<\/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":[3,26,129,43,1154],"tags":[2700,3783,478,3461,2701],"class_list":["post-13006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radios","category-reviews","category-shortwave-radio","category-travel","tag-best-radios-for-travel","tag-murray","tag-tecsun-pl-380","tag-travel-radios","tag-travel-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3nM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3639,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/the-tecsun-pl-380-a-great-travel-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":13006,"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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