{"id":14065,"date":"2015-07-21T12:19:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T16:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=14065"},"modified":"2015-07-21T12:19:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T16:19:16","slug":"tecsun-pl-600-74-99-shipped-at-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/tecsun-pl-600-74-99-shipped-at-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tecsun PL-600: $74.99 shipped at Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PL-600\"<\/a><\/p>\n

SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Tom Ally, writes to say that the Tecsun PL-600 is currently on sale at Amazon.com for $74.99<\/a>, shipping included. While this is not a deep discount, he notes that it is a lot of radio for the price. I still have a PL-600 and tend to agree with Tom. In fact, I was using my PL-600 this morning, comparing it to the new Sangean ATS-405<\/a>. In many respects, the PL-600 reminds me of the Grundig G5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here to view the Tecsun PL-600 on Amazon.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post reader, Tom Ally, writes to say that the Tecsun PL-600 is currently on sale at Amazon.com for $74.99, shipping included. While this is not a deep discount, he notes that it is a lot of radio for the price. I still have a PL-600 and tend to agree with Tom. In fact, I […]<\/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":[3,26,43],"tags":[471,482,479,481,4009],"class_list":["post-14065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-amazon","tag-pl-600","tag-tecsun","tag-tecsun-pl-600","tag-tom-ally"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3ER","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16008,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/which-one-the-tecsun-pl-660-or-the-pl-600\/","url_meta":{"origin":14065,"position":0},"title":"Which one: The Tecsun PL-660 or the PL-600?","author":"Thomas","date":"December 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning, I received a question I'm often asked. 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I have dozens of portable radios that I rarely use--many I keep solely for review comparisons and benchmarking. 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