{"id":48281,"date":"2021-03-27T08:20:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T12:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=48281"},"modified":"2021-03-27T08:20:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T12:20:47","slug":"tecsun-pl-330-tip-using-the-telescopic-antenna-for-the-lw-mw-bands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/tecsun-pl-330-tip-using-the-telescopic-antenna-for-the-lw-mw-bands\/","title":{"rendered":"Tecsun PL-330 tip: Using the telescopic antenna for the LW &#038; MW bands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tecsun-PL-330-11.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47207\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tecsun-PL-330-11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tecsun-PL-330-11.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tecsun-PL-330-11-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tecsun-PL-330-11-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tecsun-PL-330-11-624x468.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mad Radio DXer, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I want to let you &amp; your readers know of a Tecsun PL-330 trick that I saw mentioned in the comments section of your blog some time ago which does not seem to have a lot of awareness. This is for using the telescopic antenna for the LW &amp; MW bands, &amp; it works for the 3305 version of the PL-330 which I understand is the export version. The original comment I saw said this also works for the Chinese version of the PL-330, before firmware 3305.<br \/>\nIt is very easy to do &amp; instructions are the following&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. Turn on the radio.<br \/>\n2. Select either the MW or LW band.<br \/>\n3. Press the number 3 key down for a few seconds, until the display shows &#8220;CH-S&#8221;.<br \/>\nThis means the MW &amp; LW bands can now be received with the telescopic antenna.<br \/>\n4. To use the ferrite bar again, press the number 3 key until &#8220;CH-A&#8221; appears on screen.<\/p>\n<p>I also did <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/C_H4z4QJqDk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a YouTube video<\/a> showing this trick in action&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C_H4z4QJqDk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This reminds me of the trick used for the Degen DE1103 PLL version which allows reception of the telescopic antenna for the MW band. However, in my opinion this is much easier to use on the PL-330 than the DE1103 PLL which could be very fiddly. Also this trick is most effective on the LW band, as I find Chinese portables are usually very weak on this part of the band which is good news for LW DXers. I hope you &amp; everyone reading find this trick very useful &amp; that it works.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you so much for the excellent tip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mad Radio DXer, who writes: Hi, I want to let you &amp; your readers know of a Tecsun PL-330 trick that I saw mentioned in the comments section of your blog some time ago which does not seem to have a lot of awareness. This is for using the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[2436,433,3,139,43],"tags":[6820,8078,7188,34,4082,819,479,8076],"class_list":["post-48281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longwave","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-radio-modifications","category-shortwave-radio","tag-mad-radio-dxer","tag-pl-330","tag-radio-modifications","tag-shortwave","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-swl","tag-tecsun","tag-tecsun-pl-330"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cyJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45608,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/tecsun-pl-330-initial-impressions-overview-of-functions-and-operation\/","url_meta":{"origin":48281,"position":0},"title":"Tecsun PL-330: Initial impressions, overview of functions, and operation","author":"Thomas","date":"September 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jaap de Goede, for the following guest posts: Operating the TECSUN PL-330 without an English manual by Jaap de Goede Introduction Inspired by my father, I like listening to radio transmissions for the last 60 years. 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