{"id":38965,"date":"2019-08-11T07:39:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T11:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=38965"},"modified":"2019-08-11T07:39:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T11:39:11","slug":"tecsun-pl-880-turning-off-backlight-and-one-mystery-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/tecsun-pl-880-turning-off-backlight-and-one-mystery-function\/","title":{"rendered":"Tecsun PL-880: turning off backlight and one mystery function"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I took delivery of my PL-880 and have seen your notes on hidden features<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the radio off, press and hold button 5, this disables\/enables the light switch.<\/p>\n

Pressing same button whilst on FM reveals information of which I’m unsure, I expect you or your readers will no doubt know what that’s about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks for sharing this, John. I’ve let a friend borrow my PL-880 so I don’t have it for reference. I’m hoping someone here can shed some light on the information display you’re seeing by pressing button 5 while in FM mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, John Carrod, who writes: I took delivery of my PL-880 and have seen your notes on hidden features. With the radio off, press and hold button 5, this disables\/enables the light switch. Pressing same button whilst on FM reveals information of which I’m unsure, I expect you or your […]<\/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":[3,26,43],"tags":[2065,479,2066,3144],"class_list":["post-38965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","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-a8t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8156,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/hidden-feature-adjusting-the-tecsun-pl-880-fm-de-emphasis\/","url_meta":{"origin":38965,"position":0},"title":"Hidden feature: Adjusting the Tecsun PL-880 FM de-emphasis","author":"Thomas","date":"December 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"There has been some confusion (mainly on my part) about the hidden feature behind button number 5. 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