{"id":55344,"date":"2023-01-12T04:30:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T08:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=55344"},"modified":"2023-01-11T07:27:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T11:27:44","slug":"gabry-repairs-a-problematic-tecun-pl-660-encoder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/gabry-repairs-a-problematic-tecun-pl-660-encoder\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabry repairs a problematic Tecun PL-660 encoder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PL-660.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10202\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PL-660.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PL-660.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PL-660-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PL-660-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Gabry Rizzi (IV3MIR), who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hi, I&#8217;m an Italian radio amateur IV3MIR and I have a YouTube channel entirely dedicated to the radio &#8220;GabryMir Radio&#8221;. I&#8217;m sending you the link of one of my latest videos. If you like it I would be happy to see it on your blog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I hope the automatic youtube translator does a good job.<br \/>\nCordially 73 and Happy New Year!<br \/>\nGabry Rizzi IV3MIR<\/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\/TSEISAM4fhU?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\/TSEISAM4fhU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to watch via YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Note that Closed Captions can be translated into English and other languages.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you for sharing your video with us! I&#8217;m happy you were able to sort out the issue with your &#8216;660 encoder!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gabry Rizzi (IV3MIR), who writes: Hi, I&#8217;m an Italian radio amateur IV3MIR and I have a YouTube channel entirely dedicated to the radio &#8220;GabryMir Radio&#8221;. I&#8217;m sending you the link of one of my latest videos. If you like it I would be happy to see it on your [&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":[3,3196,43],"tags":[10099,332,4547,330],"class_list":["post-55344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-portable-radio","category-shortwave-radio","tag-gabry-rizzi-iv3mir","tag-pl-660","tag-radio-repair","tag-tecsun-pl-660"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-eoE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9370,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/monitoring-while-recording-on-the-tecsun-pl-660\/","url_meta":{"origin":55344,"position":0},"title":"Monitoring while recording on the Tecsun PL-660","author":"Thomas","date":"April 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"London Shortwave\u00a0has discovered an innovative way to monitor broadcasts while recording from\u00a0his Tecsun PL-660. 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I placed a table in my driveway, far away from any source of RFI, and set up the radios in identical configurations: same orientation, antennas fully-extended,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/XHDATA-D-808-Digitech-AR-1780-side-by-side-1024x613.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/XHDATA-D-808-Digitech-AR-1780-side-by-side-1024x613.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/XHDATA-D-808-Digitech-AR-1780-side-by-side-1024x613.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8321,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/universal-radio-lowers-price-of-tecsun-pl-660\/","url_meta":{"origin":55344,"position":3},"title":"Universal Radio lowers price of Tecsun PL-660","author":"Thomas","date":"December 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Universal Radio has lowered the price of their Tecsun PL-660 to $109.95. 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