{"id":30680,"date":"2018-02-02T08:34:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T12:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=30680"},"modified":"2018-02-02T08:34:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T12:34:21","slug":"video-how-to-calibrate-the-tecsun-pl-660-frequency-offset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/video-how-to-calibrate-the-tecsun-pl-660-frequency-offset\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: How to calibrate the Tecsun PL-660 frequency offset"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Mike Mander<\/a>, who writes:<\/p>\n

I’ve recently really been enjoying swling.com. Thanks for having such a great resource online with shortwave radio and hardware reviews, tips and more! I started listening to shortwave on an old Philips portable receiver back in the late 70\u2019s as a teenager. Recently, after decades of not listening to shortwave, I decided to buy an Eton \u2018Grundig Edition\u2019 Satellit radio and in no time at all, I had also acquired a C.Crane Skywave SSB and now, within the last week, a Tecsun PL-660.<\/p>\n

[…]I thought I\u2019d record a video showing how one can calibrate AM, FM, SW wide-bandwidth as well as SW narrow-bandwidth independently, and how to reset those calibrations back to factory default. I have not heard it mentioned anywhere that one can calibrate both wide and narrow bandwidth SW modes independently.<\/p>\n

Online, I have read about many people being disappointed in their PL-660\u2019s wide-bandwidth frequency calibration, where often being on-station results in the frequency being up to 5 kHz too low, and it seems many simply return their radios as defective, not realizing how easy it is to recalibrate. This is the first \u201cinstructional” video of this sort that I\u2019ve ever posted online, so you\u2019ll have to pardon if I am perhaps not explaining things clearly enough:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n