{"id":41635,"date":"2020-01-16T08:33:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T12:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=41635"},"modified":"2020-01-16T08:33:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T12:33:04","slug":"tecsun-pl-990-and-h-501-what-we-know-so-far-about-the-upcoming-production-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/tecsun-pl-990-and-h-501-what-we-know-so-far-about-the-upcoming-production-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Tecsun PL-990 and H-501: What we know so far about the upcoming production run"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41613\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tecsun-PL-990-1-e1579091318988.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41613\" class=\"wp-image-41613 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tecsun-PL-990-1-e1579091318988.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"514\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The PL-990 released in China last year.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many of you have been asking me about the pricing and availability of the Tecsun PL-990 and H-501 receivers. Both radios were released late last year (2019) in China, but the final export version&#8211;and first full production run&#8211;has not yet hit the market.<\/p>\n<p>I reached out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anon-co.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anon-Co<\/a> to see what updates, if any, we have about these radios. They were able to share the following points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Tecsun sold a first version of the PL-990 and H-501 in China as a promotion before Chinese New Year, at a promotional price.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;They will launch further updated versions in the next few months, which will also be the international export version. This price will definitely be higher than the promotional prices, but the exact price is not available yet.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The version for the international market is not finalized yet. It may become available by the end of March or April, but there is no official launch date yet.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_41057\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tecsun-PL-990-and-H-501-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41057\" class=\"wp-image-41057 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tecsun-PL-990-and-H-501-5-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tecsun-PL-990-and-H-501-5-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tecsun-PL-990-and-H-501-5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tecsun-PL-990-and-H-501-5-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tecsun-PL-990-and-H-501-5-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tecsun-PL-990-and-H-501-5.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The H-501 version released in China last year.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I think the important take-aways here are that we&#8217;re still perhaps a couple months out from the final versions shipping and that the price will be slightly higher than <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/more-tecsun-pl-990-images\/\">the initial production run<\/a> in China.<\/p>\n<p>Good news is, it sounds like this radio will get a proper vetting before it ships!\u00a0 I&#8217;m willing to wait knowing this. Also, if I&#8217;m reading between the lines correctly, there could be some noticeable changes and updates to the final exported versions.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to follow updates about these radios as we post them, bookmark the tags <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/pl-990\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PL-990<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/h-501\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">H-501<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong><em>Do you enjoy the SWLing Post?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Please consider supporting us via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=7466002&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fswling.com%2Fblog%2F&amp;utm_medium=widget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u%3D7466002%26redirect_uri%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fswling.com%252Fblog%252F%26utm_medium%3Dwidget&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1534765144986000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEe7C7aRTKqwuFkU5YIo8XEqPqthw\"><span class=\"il\">Patreon<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=TGGFP2XVZDPP2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd%3D_s-xclick%26hosted_button_id%3DTGGFP2XVZDPP2&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1534765144986000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH45maBgVLGpqLmQQvviVKBNMEGUw\"><span class=\"il\">Coffee<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Fund<\/span><\/a>! <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Your support makes articles like this one possible. Thank you!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=7466002&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fswling.com%2Fblog%2F&amp;utm_medium=widget\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33932 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/become_a_patreon-patron_button@2x.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/become_a_patreon-patron_button@2x.png 434w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/become_a_patreon-patron_button@2x-300x71.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you have been asking me about the pricing and availability of the Tecsun PL-990 and H-501 receivers. Both radios were released late last year (2019) in China, but the final export version&#8211;and first full production run&#8211;has not yet hit the market. I reached out to Anon-Co to see what updates, if any, we [&hellip;]<\/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":[2749,8079,7811,479,8077,7810],"class_list":["post-41635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-anon-co","tag-h-501","tag-pl-990","tag-tecsun","tag-tecsun-h-501","tag-tecsun-pl-990"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aPx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41047,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/tecsun-pl-990-and-h-501-may-be-the-last-high-end-shortwave-portables-from-tecsun\/","url_meta":{"origin":41635,"position":0},"title":"Tecsun PL-990 and H-501 may be the last high-end shortwave portables from Tecsun","author":"Thomas","date":"December 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor from China, Mei Tao, who writes: I would like to share the latest news about Tecsun\u2019s New Products: the PL-990 and H-501. These day I found that several Chinese BCLers who received the PL990 or H501 one after another--they posted many a detailed pictures\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Products&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Products","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/new-products\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tecsun-PL-990-and-H-501-1-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tecsun-PL-990-and-H-501-1-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tecsun-PL-990-and-H-501-1-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":40443,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/update-availability-of-the-tecsun-pl-990-and-h-501\/","url_meta":{"origin":41635,"position":1},"title":"Update: Availability of the Tecsun PL-990 and H-501","author":"Thomas","date":"November 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gareth Buxton, who recently received the latest availability dates of the new Tecsun PL-990 and H-501. According to Anna at Anon-Co, both radios should start shipping in January or February of 2020. Gareth included the following screenshot which also notes the new AN-48x active\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Products&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Products","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/new-products\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191102-102353.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":40291,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/photo-of-the-new-tecsun-pl-330-pl-990-and-h-501\/","url_meta":{"origin":41635,"position":2},"title":"Photo of the new Tecsun PL-330, PL-990, and H-501","author":"Thomas","date":"October 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Lee, who writes: Hi Thomas, I just found this photo [above] on Reddit of three new radios from Tecsun: the PL-330, the PL-990, and the H-501. I knew about the PL-990, but I didn't realize there was a PL-330 or H-501. Any inside info?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Products&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Products","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/new-products\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Tecsun-PL-330.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":41612,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/more-tecsun-pl-990-images\/","url_meta":{"origin":41635,"position":3},"title":"More Tecsun PL-990 images","author":"Thomas","date":"January 15, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Carel Kuijer, who shares the following images of the new Tecsun PL-990: Thanks for sharing these, Carel! FYI: I have not heard a solid update yet on pricing\/availability of the Tecsun PL-990 and Tecsun H-501. 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