{"id":26857,"date":"2017-07-04T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=26857"},"modified":"2017-07-03T06:56:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T10:56:02","slug":"tecsun-pl-660-hidden-feature-fm-calibration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/tecsun-pl-660-hidden-feature-fm-calibration\/","title":{"rendered":"Tecsun PL-660 Hidden Feature: FM Calibration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PL-660.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10202\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PL-660.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PL-660.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PL-660-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PL-660-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Rick B, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just thought I&#8217;d share with you a hidden function I discovered documented on the web for the Tecsun PL-660. It&#8217;s how to calibrate the FM band if you have a radio that is off frequency.<\/p>\n<p>As my current PL-660 is accurate on FM, I haven&#8217;t had to try this myself. But perhaps it could save someone else from having to return\/exchange a radio.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kaito.us\/miscellaneous\/qa\/how-to-calibrate-the-pl660-on-the-fm-band.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/kaito.us\/miscellaneous\/qa\/how-to-calibrate-the-pl660-on-the-fm-band.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Re-calibrating FM, radio needs to be on and set to FM band. Tune to the desired frequency\/station you wish to listen to, press &#8220;SYNC&#8221; for about 3 seconds back light will flash. Tune up until the frequency\/station sounds more clear press &#8220;1&#8221; to confirm re-calibration. If done correctly the correct frequency\/station will be displayed on the display. Keep the battery in for all the time&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Very cool! \u00a0Thank you for sharing the tip, Rick!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Rick B, who writes: I just thought I&#8217;d share with you a hidden function I discovered documented on the web for the Tecsun PL-660. It&#8217;s how to calibrate the FM band if you have a radio that is off frequency. As my current PL-660 is accurate on FM, I [&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":[3781,627,3,139,26,43],"tags":[1584,332,6298,25,330,6299,6297],"class_list":["post-26857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-how-to","category-news","category-radio-modifications","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-fm","tag-pl-660","tag-rick-brunet","tag-shortwave-radios","tag-tecsun-pl-660","tag-tecsun-pl-660-fm-calibration","tag-tecsun-pl-660-hidden-features"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6Zb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30680,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/video-how-to-calibrate-the-tecsun-pl-660-frequency-offset\/","url_meta":{"origin":26857,"position":0},"title":"Video: How to calibrate the Tecsun PL-660 frequency offset","author":"Thomas","date":"February 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Mike Mander, who writes: I've recently really been enjoying swling.com. 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