{"id":7004,"date":"2013-08-08T07:18:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7004"},"modified":"2013-08-08T07:18:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:18:23","slug":"the-new-tecsun-pl-880-sounds-promising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/the-new-tecsun-pl-880-sounds-promising\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Tecsun PL-880 sounds promising"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Tecsun PL-880 (Photo: bbs.tecsun.com.cn\/)<\/p><\/div>\n

Last night, I discovered news of the new Tecsun PL-880 on Jeff’s excellent blog, the Herculodge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Out of all of the current shortwave radio manufacturers, Tecsun seems to be one of the only companies making new<\/em> models for the radio hobbyist–models with important features like SSB, bandwidth control, fine tuning steps, capable AGC, etc.<\/p>\n

According to a comment Owl left on this post,<\/a> it sounds like the PL-880 could be a performer:<\/p>\n

Two photos of Tecsun’s new model PL880 appeared yesterday. It uses an analog+DSP architecture similar to ATS909X but has made some significant improvements (4 AM\u00a0bandwidth + 5 SSB bandwidth) and better audio compared to previous Tecsun portables.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/herculodge.typepad.com\/herculodge\/2013\/08\/new-tecsun-pl-880-on-its-way.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I will plan on reviewing the PL-880, once it hits the market. If it’s no larger than my Sony ICF-SW7600GR, it might make for a great travel radio.<\/p>\n

\"TecsunPL-880Box\"<\/a>

(Photo source: bbs.tecsun.com.cn)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, I discovered news of the new Tecsun PL-880 on Jeff’s excellent blog, the Herculodge. Out of all of the current shortwave radio manufacturers, Tecsun seems to be one of the only companies making new models for the radio hobbyist–models with important features like SSB, bandwidth control, fine tuning steps, capable AGC, etc. According […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[836,26,43],"tags":[2065,479,2066],"class_list":["post-7004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-pl-880","tag-tecsun","tag-tecsun-pl-880"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1OY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8799,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/universal-radio-now-shipping-the-tecsun-pl-880\/","url_meta":{"origin":7004,"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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