{"id":23954,"date":"2017-02-05T08:07:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T12:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23954"},"modified":"2017-10-22T07:27:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T11:27:06","slug":"dave-notes-unfavorable-reviews-of-the-tecsun-pl-310et","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/dave-notes-unfavorable-reviews-of-the-tecsun-pl-310et\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave notes unfavorable reviews of the Tecsun PL-310ET"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[Update:<\/strong> Most comments point to these negative reviews as outliers–possibly a bad batch from the factory. All-in-all, the PL-310ET is favorably reviewed.]<\/em><\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dave Zantow, who writes:<\/p>\n

I see the Tecsun PL-310(ET) has been receiving some very negative reviews over on eHam in the last days. Too bad:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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http:\/\/www.eham.net\/reviews\/detail\/10283<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks for the heads-up, Dave!<\/p>\n

Perhaps these reviewers simply received faulty\/lemon units? Internal soldering and construction can vary. On the other hand, both reviews were submitted on Feb 1, 2017 implying their units probably came from the same production batch. There are a couple of recent negative reviews on Amazon.com as well (though not detailed).<\/p>\n

Of course, it does make one wonder if Tecsun made any internal design changes to the PL-310ET. But again, perhaps these two reviewers simply received units from a faulty batch.<\/p>\n

For sure, these reviews are not consistent with the excellent performance of the PL-310ET I know–which is, by any standard, an amazing little radio!<\/p>\n

I don’t want to imply there’s something\u00a0wrong with the current PL-310ET production run, but I am curious if anyone else has been disappointed with their recently-purchased PL-310ET. Comments?<\/p>\n

[UPDATE<\/strong>: based on the many comments–thank you!–it appears at least PL-310ETs that were purchased up to the end of December 2016 are functioning perfectly. Again, perhaps these two reviewers received faulty units.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Update: Most comments point to these negative reviews as outliers–possibly a bad batch from the factory. All-in-all, the PL-310ET is favorably reviewed.] Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Zantow, who writes: I see the Tecsun PL-310(ET) has been receiving some very negative reviews over on eHam in the last days. Too bad: http:\/\/www.eham.net\/reviews\/detail\/10283 Thanks […]<\/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":true,"_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":[2584,2552,2553],"class_list":["post-23954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dave-zantow-n9ewo","tag-pl-310et","tag-tecsun-pl-310et"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6em","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8702,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/dietmar-compares-the-tecsun-pl-310et-to-the-icom-r-71a\/","url_meta":{"origin":23954,"position":0},"title":"Dietmar compares the Tecsun PL-310ET to the Icom R-71A","author":"Thomas","date":"February 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post reader, Dietmar, writes: \"I recently saw a YouTube video that demonstrated that the new Tecsun PL-310ET has better reception than the previous PL-310 that you reviewed [see video below]. 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