{"id":42219,"date":"2020-03-06T22:40:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T02:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=42219"},"modified":"2020-03-11T12:57:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T16:57:11","slug":"tecsun-pl-990-now-on-aliexpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/tecsun-pl-990-now-on-aliexpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Tecsun PL-990 (pilot run) now on AliExpress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Robinson, who notes that the Tecsun PL-990 has now appeared on AliExpress.com.<\/p>\n

The price is a steep $399 US shipped via DHL with an estimated delivery of late March. They claim to have about 900 units available.<\/p>\n

You can check out the PL-990 on the AliExpress website, but it might require registration even via this direct link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I would wait until the PL-990 is available at Anon-Co<\/a> since they’re an authorized Tecsun distributor, have proven customer service, and will likely have a more competitive price. I would also question if the AliExpress units are the new export version we’ve been waiting for<\/a>, or simply the units that were available within China last year. The AliExpress page<\/a> gives us no clear indication of the production version at time of posting.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Turns out, these are the pilot Chinese versions of the PL-990<\/a>. I can’t recommend purchasing one–especially at this price.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope this might indicate that the PL-990 is close to release. Covid-19<\/a> has certainly stopped much production and development in China. Thanks again for the tip, Dan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who notes that the Tecsun PL-990 has now appeared on AliExpress.com. The price is a steep $399 US shipped via DHL with an estimated delivery of late March. They claim to have about 900 units available. You can check out the PL-990 on the AliExpress website, but […]<\/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":[6689,2635,7811,479,7810],"class_list":["post-42219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-aliexpress","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-aYX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42248,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/how-to-distinguish-pilot-run-and-final-export-versions-of-the-tecsun-pl-990\/","url_meta":{"origin":42219,"position":0},"title":"Tecsun PL-990: How to distinguish pilot run and final export versions","author":"Thomas","date":"March 11, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"As I suspected, it appears the Tecsun PL-990 batch that showed up recently on AliExpress for $399 each are the preliminary pilot run units that Tecsun offered in China last year. 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