{"id":27769,"date":"2017-08-28T10:36:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T14:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=27769"},"modified":"2017-11-08T10:11:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:11:13","slug":"video-peters-review-of-the-digitech-ar-1780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/video-peters-review-of-the-digitech-ar-1780\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Peter&#8217;s review of the Digitech AR-1780"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Digitech-AR-1780-Hurricane-Watch-Net-USB-Dial-e1503701727670.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27734\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Digitech-AR-1780-Hurricane-Watch-Net-USB-Dial-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, <a href=\"http:\/\/medxr.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rob Wagner (VK3BVW)<\/a>, who comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s a quick and dirty video review of the <strong>AR-1780<\/strong> by Peter VK3YE, which highlights a few interesting quirks (if that\u2019s the right word!) with this receiver. Some birdies, specs that don\u2019t appear accurate, and a query over one of the bandwidth settings. Well worth a look!:<\/p><\/blockquote>\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\/GZAlJJiktEg?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\/GZAlJJiktEg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for sharing this video review, Robert!<\/p>\n<p>Peter (VK3YE) has done an excellent job indeed summing up the AR-1780&#8211;his notes and comments mirror my own. I would have never caught that oddity with the 1.2 to 1 kHz bandwidth reversal.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/vk3ye.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter&#8217;s website by clicking here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCPhfct0hwCpv_q6_BVSFsRA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his YouTube channel by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[UPDATE: <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/review-of-the-digitech-ar-1780-portable-shortwave-radio\/\">Click here to read our full review of the Digitech AR-1780<\/a>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Rob Wagner (VK3BVW), who comments: There\u2019s a quick and dirty video review of the AR-1780 by Peter VK3YE, which highlights a few interesting quirks (if that\u2019s the right word!) with this receiver. Some birdies, specs that don\u2019t appear accurate, and a query over one of the bandwidth settings. Well [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,5984,3781,836,3,26,43,154,1154],"tags":[6396,4556,6332,6460],"class_list":["post-27769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-aviation","category-fm","category-new-products","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","category-shortwave-radio-reviews","category-travel","tag-ar-1780","tag-digitech","tag-digitech-ar-1780","tag-peter-vk3ye"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7dT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27743,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/video-the-digitech-ar-1780-on-single-sideband\/","url_meta":{"origin":27769,"position":0},"title":"Video: The Digitech AR-1780 on single sideband","author":"Thomas","date":"August 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"[UPDATE: Click here to read our full review of the Digitech AR-1780.] With travels, solar eclipse events and family activities this week, I've had very little time to play radio. 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Firstly the SSB does have an annoying mute when running, but the sensitivity and sound quality is fantastic,\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\/Digitech_AR-1780-and-CC-Skywave-3-1024x576.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Digitech_AR-1780-and-CC-Skywave-3-1024x576.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Digitech_AR-1780-and-CC-Skywave-3-1024x576.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":28696,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/radio-deal-digitech-ar-1780-99-aud-via-jaycar\/","url_meta":{"origin":27769,"position":3},"title":"Radio Deal: Digitech AR-1780 $99 AUD\/$119 NZD via Jaycar","author":"Thomas","date":"October 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"[UPDATE: Click here to read our full review of the Digitech AR-1780.] Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Wesley, who notes: For those in Australia, the Jaycar in Bondi Junction is currently selling the Digitech AR-1780 for AUD$99. 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