{"id":49934,"date":"2021-08-09T07:30:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T11:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=49934"},"modified":"2021-08-09T07:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T11:30:30","slug":"the-new-sihuadon-d-808-portable-shortwave-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/the-new-sihuadon-d-808-portable-shortwave-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"The new SIHUADON D-808 portable shortwave radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SIHUADON-D-808-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49935\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SIHUADON-D-808-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SIHUADON-D-808-1.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SIHUADON-D-808-1-300x269.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SIHUADON-D-808-1-768x690.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SIHUADON-D-808-1-624x560.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Adid, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hi Thomas,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Yesterday I found this short animation:<\/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\/CYEh39RTkd4?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;\">So I went to their website to look at this nice black and amber screen new model.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/xhdata.com.cn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/xhdata.com.cn\/<\/a> (strangely enough, they sell there Tecsun stuff also)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I don&#8217;t plan on buying it any time soon as I don&#8217;t think they added &#8220;memories scroll&#8221; as there is in the R108.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">So any of the members here can comment on the Black SIHUADON D-808 ?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Regards, Adi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you for sharing this, Adid!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m also very curious if any <em>SWLing Post<\/em> readers have purchased the SIHUADON D-808 and could comment on any differences (other than the superficial ones) with it and the XHADATA D-808.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Adid, who writes: Hi Thomas, Yesterday I found this short animation: So I went to their website to look at this nice black and amber screen new model. https:\/\/xhdata.com.cn\/ (strangely enough, they sell there Tecsun stuff also) I don&#8217;t plan on buying it any time soon as I don&#8217;t [&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":[836,3,43],"tags":[8269,6620,4082,9399,6619],"class_list":["post-49934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-adid","tag-d-808","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-sihuadon-d-808","tag-xhdata-d-808"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cZo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48951,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/adid-offers-two-simple-mods-for-the-xhdata-d-808-or-any-portable-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":49934,"position":0},"title":"Adid offers two simple mods for the XHDATA D-808 (or any portable radio!)","author":"Thomas","date":"May 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Adid, who shares two inexpensive mods he made on his XHDATA D-808 shortly after taking delivery of it in 2018. 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