{"id":23898,"date":"2017-02-02T17:31:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T21:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23898"},"modified":"2017-09-08T10:33:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T14:33:26","slug":"the-tecsun-s-8800-tuned-to-radio-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-tecsun-s-8800-tuned-to-radio-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tecsun S-8800 tuned to Radio Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tecsun-S-8800-SpeakerGrill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23837\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tecsun-S-8800-SpeakerGrill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tecsun-S-8800-SpeakerGrill.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tecsun-S-8800-SpeakerGrill-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tecsun-S-8800-SpeakerGrill-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tecsun-S-8800-SpeakerGrill-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tecsun-S-8800-SpeakerGrill-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday, while comparing the new Tecsun S-8800 with the <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/2013\/11\/tecsun-pl-880\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PL-880<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/2011\/01\/sony-icf-sw7600gr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICF-SW7600GR<\/a> (on the tail gate of my truck) I tuned to Radio Guinea and was instantly reminded why I love music over shortwave.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a clip I kept rather short for fear that YouTube might note the off-air music and pull the video for copyright infringement (happens all the time). I shot this with my mobile phone, so you can&#8217;t hear the bass notes:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7qTwNR5Fk8Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7qTwNR5Fk8Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to view on YouTube.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some of my favorite stations for music over the shortwaves are the Voice of Greece, Radio Guinea, Radio Havana Cuba, All India Radio, Radio Romania International, Medi 1 and Zanzibar Broadcasting Corp. Not to mention all of the private broadcasters like WRMI, The Mighty KBC and <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/bill-tilford\/\">Bill\u00a0Tilford&#8217;s productions<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Of course, there are <em>so<\/em> many more stations that play wonderful music! I keep a copy of<a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/alan-roes-b16-guide-to-music-on-shortwave-radio\/\"> Alan Roe&#8217;s music guide handy!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Though it&#8217;s still early days with the S-8800, I can say that it does a fine job reproducing music in full fidelity. Receiver-wise, it mops the floor with my <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/2010\/12\/grundig-gs350dl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S350DL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/a-review-of-the-tecsun-s-8800-shortwavelwam-mwfm-portable-receiver\/\">Click here to read our full Tecsun S-8800 review.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, while comparing the new Tecsun S-8800 with the PL-880 and ICF-SW7600GR (on the tail gate of my truck) I tuned to Radio Guinea and was instantly reminded why I love music over shortwave. Here&#8217;s a clip I kept rather short for fear that YouTube might note the off-air music and pull the video for [&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":[442,836,3,26,746,43],"tags":[5499,4397,4396],"class_list":["post-23898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-products","category-news","category-radios","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-radio-guinea","tag-s-8800","tag-tecsun-s-8800"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6ds","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27762,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/video-daytime-mediumwave-shootout-with-the-tecsun-s-8800\/","url_meta":{"origin":23898,"position":0},"title":"Video: Daytime mediumwave shootout with the Tecsun S-8800","author":"Thomas","date":"August 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"About a week ago, I received a re-engineered version of the Tecsun S-8800 from Anna at the excellent online retailer, Anon-Co. 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I carved out about two hours of my afternoon and spent the entire time comparing the S-8800 to the Tecsun PL-880\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Products&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Products","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/new-products\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tecsun-S-8800-shortwave-dial-1024x576.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tecsun-S-8800-shortwave-dial-1024x576.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tecsun-S-8800-shortwave-dial-1024x576.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":28789,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/dmitrys-video-overview-of-the-s-8800\/","url_meta":{"origin":23898,"position":2},"title":"Dmitry&#8217;s video overview of the S-8800","author":"Thomas","date":"October 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dmitry Elagin, who shares the following: Good afternoon! I became the owner of Tecsun S-8800 recently. I made two videos - unpacking and the overview of the receiver: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-3Tu6gW4pF8 Click here to view on YouTube. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JGXITCyknMU Click here to view on YouTube. 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