{"id":50842,"date":"2021-11-11T19:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T23:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=50842"},"modified":"2021-11-11T08:13:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T12:13:21","slug":"jerome-makes-an-aluminum-back-stand-for-the-pl-880","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/jerome-makes-an-aluminum-back-stand-for-the-pl-880\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerome makes an aluminum back stand for the PL-880"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Jerome van der Linden, who writes:<\/p>\n

Hello Thomas, <\/strong>
\nI have managed to break three<\/em> of these flimsy PL-880 back stands, and thought, “how hard can it be to make one out of metal?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

These two photos are the result from a piece of aluminium that I had in the shed (yes I know you guys call it aluminum<\/em>) . Here’s hoping it lasts longer!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love it, Jerome.\u00a0 I’m willing to bet your backs tand will outlast the PL-880 now!<\/p>\n

Thanks for sharing. I love this simple aluminium<\/em> (remember, I lived in Europe–ha ha) solution! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jerome van der Linden, who writes: Hello Thomas, I have managed to break three of these flimsy PL-880 back stands, and thought, “how hard can it be to make one out of metal?” These two photos are the result from a piece of aluminium that I had in the […]<\/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":[3,139,43],"tags":[6387,2065,2066],"class_list":["post-50842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-modifications","category-shortwave-radio","tag-jerome-van-der-linden","tag-pl-880","tag-tecsun-pl-880"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-de2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8799,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/universal-radio-now-shipping-the-tecsun-pl-880\/","url_meta":{"origin":50842,"position":0},"title":"Universal Radio now shipping the Tecsun PL-880","author":"Thomas","date":"February 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Universal Radio is now shipping the Tecsun PL-880--I understand that\u00a0all of their units are firmware version 8820. 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Thanks to an image of a (prototype?) 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