{"id":53181,"date":"2022-06-29T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=53181"},"modified":"2022-06-29T09:36:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:36:02","slug":"chip-shortage-likely-to-cause-low-tecsun-inventory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/chip-shortage-likely-to-cause-low-tecsun-inventory\/","title":{"rendered":"Chip shortage likely to cause low Tecsun inventory"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I received a message from a reader recently regarding the Tecsun PL-330. They pointed out that Tecsun listed the PL-330<\/a> as “Discontinued” but I’ve confirmed that this is not the case. This is simply a poor translation\/word choice.<\/p>\n

The PL-330 is still very much in production, however I also learned the global chip shortage is hitting Tecsun (and most other radio manufactures) quite hard right now.<\/p>\n

I checked with Anna at Anon-Co<\/a> and she confirmed that they still have inventory of the PL-330<\/a> and other Tecsun models, but the chip shortage will almost certainly affect radio availability once her existing inventory is depleted.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure any of us would be surprised to learn this because the chip shortage is having impact across multiple industries<\/a> and modern DSP shortwave receivers are very chip-dependent.<\/p>\n

I follow economic news pretty closely and most experts agree that the chip shortage may create issues for the next year or even two. Indeed, there’s even a shortage of “chips to make chips<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

No worries and no need to panic, though, as we’ll get through this. I would suggest not waiting to bite the bullet if you’ve been planning to purchase a new DSP-based portable radio in the nearish future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received a message from a reader recently regarding the Tecsun PL-330. They pointed out that Tecsun listed the PL-330 as “Discontinued” but I’ve confirmed that this is not the case. This is simply a poor translation\/word choice. The PL-330 is still very much in production, however I also learned the global chip shortage is […]<\/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":[3,43],"tags":[2749,9429,2476,6889,8078,479,8076],"class_list":["post-53181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-anon-co","tag-chip-shortage","tag-dsp-chips","tag-dsp-radio","tag-pl-330","tag-tecsun","tag-tecsun-pl-330"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dPL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40291,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/photo-of-the-new-tecsun-pl-330-pl-990-and-h-501\/","url_meta":{"origin":53181,"position":0},"title":"Photo of the new Tecsun PL-330, PL-990, and H-501","author":"Thomas","date":"October 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Lee, who writes: Hi Thomas, I just found this photo [above] on Reddit of three new radios from Tecsun: the PL-330, the PL-990, and the H-501. 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