{"id":33151,"date":"2018-07-11T05:52:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T09:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=33151"},"modified":"2018-07-11T05:52:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T09:52:07","slug":"jeff-discovers-that-the-sangean-wr-2-loses-time-when-playing-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/jeff-discovers-that-the-sangean-wr-2-loses-time-when-playing-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff discovers that the Sangean WR-2 loses time when playing radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I wanted you to know that my Sangean WR-2 keeps perfect time when I don’t play the radio, but when I do play the radio I lose 25 minutes; the clock is 25 minutes slow in other words. I’ve read other complaints from Sangean owners, including from those who own the Sangean HDR-18. Some say it has something to do with RDS. Have you heard of this problem? It’s annoying because I have to reset my clock every morning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow–an otherwise excellent radio that prominently features a clock should never<\/em> have this problem. This problem essentially renders the clock useless.\u00a0 I’m not sure what would cause this unless it’s incorrectly pulling time data from the RDS function?<\/p>\n

Post<\/em> readers:<\/strong> Have you noticed this fault in the WR-2, WR-18 or other similar models? Please comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jeff McMahon, who writes: I wanted you to know that my Sangean WR-2 keeps perfect time when I don’t play the radio, but when I do play the radio I lose 25 minutes; the clock is 25 minutes slow in other words. I’ve read other complaints from Sangean owners, […]<\/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":[3781,3,26],"tags":[4464,600,4248,5186],"class_list":["post-33151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-news","category-radios","tag-jeff-mcmahon","tag-sangean","tag-sangean-wr-2","tag-wr-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8CH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19543,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/jeff-reviews-the-sangean-wr-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":33151,"position":0},"title":"Jeff reviews the Sangean WR-2","author":"Thomas","date":"June 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I've just learned that my buddy Jeff, over at the Herculodge, has reviewed the Sangean WR-2. 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