{"id":19604,"date":"2016-06-21T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=19604"},"modified":"2016-06-21T11:31:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T15:31:54","slug":"intek-pl-660-on-sale-at-maplin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/intek-pl-660-on-sale-at-maplin\/","title":{"rendered":"Intek PL-660 on sale at Maplin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Intek-PL-660\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If you live in the UK, you might take note that the retailer, Maplin<\/a>, has the Intek PL-660<\/strong> on sale for 59.99 GBP. Though I’ve never held an Intek PL-660 in my hands, I’m pretty certain\u00a0it’s simply a rebadged\u00a0Tecsun PL-660<\/a>. (Readers, please correct me if I’m wrong.)<\/p>\n

Click here to view the Intek PL-660 at Maplin<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you live in the UK, you might take note that the retailer, Maplin, has the Intek PL-660 on sale for 59.99 GBP. Though I’ve never held an Intek PL-660 in my hands, I’m pretty certain\u00a0it’s simply a rebadged\u00a0Tecsun PL-660. (Readers, please correct me if I’m wrong.) Click here to view the Intek PL-660 at […]<\/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":[4138,3,26,43],"tags":[5201,3043,332,330],"class_list":["post-19604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-intek-pl-660","tag-maplin","tag-pl-660","tag-tecsun-pl-660"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-56c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10027,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/maplin-stocks-the-tecsun-pl-660\/","url_meta":{"origin":19604,"position":0},"title":"Maplin stocks the Tecsun PL-660","author":"Thomas","date":"June 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"If you live near a Maplin retail store in the UK\u00a0you'll be happy to note that they now sell\u00a0the excellent Tecsun PL-660 portable radio. 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