{"id":38092,"date":"2019-06-05T20:40:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T00:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=38092"},"modified":"2019-06-06T07:12:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T11:12:02","slug":"the-tecsun-pl-990-the-next-full-featured-portable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-tecsun-pl-990-the-next-full-featured-portable\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tecsun PL-990: The next full-featured portable?"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Update: Please check out this post about the Tecsun PL-990<\/a>.]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following image originally posted in the Shortwave Radio Listener Appreciation<\/a> Facebook group:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This looks like a solid iteration of the venerable Tecsun PL-880<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the previous photo we posted via Twitter user @katsu3_uc of the Tecsun S-9900<\/a> looks like a departure from Tecsun ascetics, and more like the classic Grundig Sattelit 700 chassis, the PL-990 image is much more of what I would have expected. The S-9900 is much harder to believe.<\/p>\n

I will try to gather more information about these designs and if one or both might come to fruition this year.\u00a0 I’ll post PL-990 updates with the tag: Tecsun PL-990<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Update: Please check out this post about the Tecsun PL-990.] Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following image originally posted in the Shortwave Radio Listener Appreciation Facebook group: This looks like a solid iteration of the venerable Tecsun PL-880. While the previous photo we posted via Twitter user @katsu3_uc of […]<\/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":[836,3,43],"tags":[2635,7811,479,7810],"class_list":["post-38092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dan-robinson","tag-pl-990","tag-tecsun","tag-tecsun-pl-990"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9Uo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42219,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/tecsun-pl-990-now-on-aliexpress\/","url_meta":{"origin":38092,"position":0},"title":"Tecsun PL-990 (pilot run) now on AliExpress","author":"Thomas","date":"March 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who notes that the Tecsun PL-990 has now appeared on AliExpress.com. 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