{"id":49043,"date":"2021-06-11T11:11:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T15:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=49043"},"modified":"2021-06-11T11:11:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T15:11:19","slug":"fran-blanche-opens-a-retekess-tr604-dsp-am-fm-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/fran-blanche-opens-a-retekess-tr604-dsp-am-fm-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran Blanche opens a Retekess TR604 DSP AM\/FM radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to my buddy, Skip, who shared the following video on his Facebook page:<\/p>\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\/zSlif4p-ULM?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<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zSlif4p-ULM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to my buddy, Skip, who shared the following video on his Facebook page: Click here to view on YouTube.<\/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":[373,3781,3],"tags":[9311,9312],"class_list":["post-49043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-fm","category-news","tag-fran-blanche","tag-retekess-tr604"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cL1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41577,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/dave-updates-and-adds-light-reviews\/","url_meta":{"origin":49043,"position":0},"title":"Dave updates and adds &#8220;light&#8221; reviews","author":"Thomas","date":"January 13, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Zantow (N9EWO), who writes: Just FYI, for those who may have missed this : My light reviews on the CCrane Skywave and Retekess TR604 (AM\/FM only set), are now posted on my web page. 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Interesting that this one has the commercial aviation band (118-138MHz). 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