{"id":29648,"date":"2017-12-14T07:38:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T11:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=29648"},"modified":"2017-12-22T07:15:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T11:15:49","slug":"tecsun-pl-880-hidden-feature-hack-1-khz-bandwidth-on-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/tecsun-pl-880-hidden-feature-hack-1-khz-bandwidth-on-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Tecsun PL-880 hidden feature\/hack: 1 kHz bandwidth on shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[Note: This procedure was updated and simplified by Guillermo on 22 December 2017]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Guillermo, who writes:<\/p>\n

I own the PL-880 and just discovered a new feature : a 1.0 kHz bandwidth mode on shortwave (SW only not in MW).<\/p>\n

The procedure to get it is as follows:<\/p>\n

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  1. Turn on the radio and tune any frecuency on SW . There is no need to connect or disconnect an external antenna and turn on or off the radio during this procedure.<\/li>\n
  2. Be sure that on SW the 4 button feature(press 4 for about 2 seconds) is ON and 9 button feature(press 9 for about 2 seconds) indicates a value of 13 or more and not less than 10.<\/li>\n
  3. Then turn OFF 4 button feature and then ON again . Press BW button and see the 1.0khz new BW on the screen. Now you can use it permanently on SW and ALSO on MW , UNTIL you press BW button again .<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Well, I hope you understand this description–if not please let me know, and tell me if it works on your unit, or it is just works on mine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Thank you,\u00a0Guillermo! I see where this is somewhat of a fragile adjustment in that a number of actions could change the bandwidth back to a previous setting, but nonetheless is quite a fascinating hack\/hidden feature! Thank you and I’ll add this to our list of PL-880 hidden features.<\/p>\n

    Post<\/em> readers:<\/strong> please comment if you can successfully enable the 1.0 kHz bandwidth on your unit.\u00a0 Please comment with your radio’s manufacture or purchase date if possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    [Note: This procedure was updated and simplified by Guillermo on 22 December 2017] Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Guillermo, who writes: I own the PL-880 and just discovered a new feature : a 1.0 kHz bandwidth mode on shortwave (SW only not in MW). The procedure to get it is as follows: Turn on the […]<\/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":[627,3,139,26,43],"tags":[2065,479,2066,3144],"class_list":["post-29648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-news","category-radio-modifications","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-pl-880","tag-tecsun","tag-tecsun-pl-880","tag-tecsun-pl-880-hidden-feature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7Ic","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9443,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/hidden-feature-calibrating-the-tecsun-pl-880-for-zero-beat-operation\/","url_meta":{"origin":29648,"position":0},"title":"Hidden feature: Calibrating the Tecsun PL-880 for zero-beat operation","author":"Thomas","date":"April 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Dan who learned, via the Tecsun PL-880 group, of another way to calibrate the PL-880 in upper and lower sideband. 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