{"id":61932,"date":"2025-02-03T06:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T10:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=61932"},"modified":"2025-02-01T10:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T14:20:23","slug":"dan-reviews-the-radel-rt-860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/dan-reviews-the-radel-rt-860\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Reviews the Radel RT-860"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Radel-RT-860-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61933\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Radel-RT-860-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Radel-RT-860-1.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Radel-RT-860-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Radel-RT-860-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Radel-RT-860-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Radel-RT-860-1-624x468.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Van Hoy, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Because I [purchased a RT-470L last year], Radtel sent me news of their brand new RT-860. No need to mod the radio like a Quangsheng. It does LW\/MW\/SW with SSB\/CW (rx only, of course) out of the box for less than $50! I just posted a short preliminary review of the RT-860 on YouTube:<\/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\/l8_fSTJqCXw?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\/l8_fSTJqCXw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Van Hoy, who writes: Because I [purchased a RT-470L last year], Radtel sent me news of their brand new RT-860. No need to mod the radio like a Quangsheng. It does LW\/MW\/SW with SSB\/CW (rx only, of course) out of the box for less than $50! I just [&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":[373,5984,3781,836,3,3196,129,43,304],"tags":[6546,10694,10693],"class_list":["post-61932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-aviation","category-fm","category-new-products","category-news","category-portable-radio","category-reviews","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","tag-dan-van-hoy","tag-radel-rt-860","tag-radel-rt-860-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-g6U","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64645,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/paul-reviews-the-radtel-rt-880g\/","url_meta":{"origin":61932,"position":0},"title":"Paul Reviews the Radtel RT-880G","author":"Thomas","date":"November 17, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Paul Jamet Looking for a versatile radio? 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