{"id":16903,"date":"2016-01-19T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=16903"},"modified":"2016-01-19T11:51:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T15:51:53","slug":"tecsun-pl-880-fine-tuning-bug-solved-by-anon-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/tecsun-pl-880-fine-tuning-bug-solved-by-anon-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Tecsun PL-880 fine tuning bug solved by Anon-Co"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PL-880-Tuning-Bug\"Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Georges (F6DFZ), who writes:<\/p>\n

As you may know, a few [of us PL-880 owners] have documented the extremely annoying bug that affect the Tecsun PL-880 during Fine Tuning of SSB signals<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

To sum it up, recently manufactured Tecsun PL-880 tune backward when using the Fine Tuning knob in SSB mode. This result in a very bad tuning feeling, especially for SWL and Ham radio operators, 1 kHz frequency jumps each kHz and a displayed frequency that can be off as much as 2 kHz.<\/em><\/p>\n

Anna from Anon-Co<\/a> has been very cooperative, serious, kind, in short: an outstanding person.\u00a0<\/em>She never denied the problem, and found a solution to correct it by loading a 8820 firmware just anterior to the buggy one.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, all PL-880 sold by Anon-Co<\/a> have the corrected firmware.<\/em><\/p>\n

I am extremely pleased with my PL-880 and I need to add that the tuning experience with the corrected firmware is night and day. Now, you can tune continuously using the Fine Tuning knob, without hitch and very smoothly ; the lack of shuffling is also very welcome, as is the Variable Rate Tuning (10 Hz or 50 Hz tuning steps).<\/em>
\n This makes the PL-880 an outstanding receiver for its price, considering the 10 Hz fine steps, the choice of selectivity, the long life on its battery, etc…<\/em><\/p>\n

Be sure to choose a distributor that sells PL-880 with the tuning bug corrected<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Click here to purchase a PL-880 via Anon-Co.<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks, Georges, for the follow-up. I’m very happy to hear that PL-880 retailers like Anon-Co are assisting in such a helpful and effective way.<\/p>\n

No doubt, other PL-880 retailers will also begin to offer a firmware upgrade to fix the fine tuning bug. As Georges notes, please check before<\/em> purchasing!<\/p>\n

Reders\/Retailers: Please comment\u00a0if you can confirm that others are now shipping PL-880s with the fine tuning control fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Georges (F6DFZ), who writes: As you may know, a few [of us PL-880 owners] have documented the extremely annoying bug that affect the Tecsun PL-880 during Fine Tuning of SSB signals. To sum it up, recently manufactured Tecsun PL-880 tune backward when using the Fine Tuning knob in SSB […]<\/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":[3,3196,26,714,43],"tags":[2065,479,2066,4570],"class_list":["post-16903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-portable-radio","category-radios","category-retailers","category-shortwave-radio","tag-pl-880","tag-tecsun","tag-tecsun-pl-880","tag-tecsun-pl-880-bugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4oD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16501,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/george-demonstrates-the-pl-880-tuning-bug\/","url_meta":{"origin":16903,"position":0},"title":"George demonstrates the Tecsun PL-880 tuning bug","author":"Thomas","date":"January 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"[19 January 2016: Please read this updated post.] In response to Pawel's post about a tuning bug affecting a recent batch of Tecsun PL-880s, SWLing Post\u00a0contributor Georges (F6DFZ) comments: I have posted a new video about this important bug of the PL-880. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3KZFlO-C-Gk I did so because it seems some\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"PL-880-Tuning-Bug","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/PL-880-Tuning-Bug.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/PL-880-Tuning-Bug.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/PL-880-Tuning-Bug.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16347,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/pawel-discovers-a-tuning-bug-in-his-tecsun-pl-880\/","url_meta":{"origin":16903,"position":1},"title":"Pawel discovers a tuning bug in his Tecsun PL-880","author":"Thomas","date":"December 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"[19 January 2016: Please read this updated post.] Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Pawel (SQ9ZAV), who writes from Poland: Hello Thomas, On November 4, 2015, I bought a Tecsun PL-880 from ErcomeR company. 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