{"id":49045,"date":"2021-05-27T09:57:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=49045"},"modified":"2021-05-27T09:57:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:57:11","slug":"videos-nick-explores-synchronous-detection-and-the-racal-6217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/videos-nick-explores-synchronous-detection-and-the-racal-6217\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Nick explores synchronous detection and the Racal 6217"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Racal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49048\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Racal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1278\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Racal.jpg 1278w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Racal-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Racal-1024x425.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Racal-768x318.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Racal-624x259.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1278px) 100vw, 1278px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Nick Boras, who shares the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>I was motivated by one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCLVm5STfCi4fYim73JIKClA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Styles videos (hamrad88)<\/a> about Sync detection to make <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lqb90aiN4g8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of my own<\/a>. It is no secret that Tecsun offers Sync on several of their radios but only the 660 and 680 really work. My take on Sync is that the results are not consistent even on some of the highest rated Sync radios. While my video is not scientific or nearly complete, I think it gives a good representation of what we can expect from Sync for SWL. <\/strong><\/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\/lqb90aiN4g8?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=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>[In addition] today was Radio Day, so I made <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/347ggs-bxQ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another video<\/a> on a very interesting radio:<\/strong><\/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\/347ggs-bxQ0?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=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Thought your readers might be interested.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are indeed! Thank you for sharing these videos, Nick! That Racal, by the way, is a beautiful beast of a rig!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Nick Boras, who shares the following: I was motivated by one of Tom Styles videos (hamrad88) about Sync detection to make one of my own. It is no secret that Tecsun offers Sync on several of their radios but only the 660 and 680 really work. My take on [&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":[627,3,43,4796],"tags":[8760,2900,9288,2252,2253,4093],"class_list":["post-49045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-vintage-radio","tag-nick-booras","tag-racal","tag-racal-6217","tag-synchronous-detector","tag-using-a-synchronous-detector","tag-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cL3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47229,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/is-am-synchronous-detection-a-crucial-portable-radio-feature\/","url_meta":{"origin":49045,"position":0},"title":"Is AM synchronous detection a crucial portable radio feature?","author":"Thomas","date":"January 10, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike, who writes with the following question: How important is AM Sync for a portable radio? 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By pressing and holding either the USB\/NORM or LSB\/NORM buttons, you can make the PL-880 sync lock on either the upper or lower side band. 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