{"id":7177,"date":"2013-09-01T21:45:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T01:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2015-06-20T09:51:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T13:51:06","slug":"my-alinco-dx-r8t-lands-on-ebay-fond-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/my-alinco-dx-r8t-lands-on-ebay-fond-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s hard to say goodbye: my Alinco DX-R8T lands on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ALinco<\/a>Alas–! It’s time to bid a fond farewell to my trusty Alinco DX-R8T. I’m only selling it to raise money to purchase hard drive storage for spectrum recordings and more review radios, which fuel this site.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, it’s in great shape and reviews<\/a>\u00a0most favorably. Indeed, the sensitivity is so<\/em> good, I’m a little reluctant to sell it…But sacrifices must be made; there are some 4TB SATA drives with my name on them (plus, admittedly, I still have five other tabletop receivers for consolation).<\/p>\n

Click here to view the listing of my Alinco DX-R8T on eBay.<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alas–! It’s time to bid a fond farewell to my trusty Alinco DX-R8T. I’m only selling it to raise money to purchase hard drive storage for spectrum recordings and more review radios, which fuel this site. Needless to say, it’s in great shape and reviews\u00a0most favorably. Indeed, the sensitivity is so good, I’m a little […]<\/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":[26,43],"tags":[324,322,325],"class_list":["post-7177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-alinco","tag-alinco-dx-r8t","tag-dx-r8t"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1RL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1006,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/alinco-dx-r8t-499-from-universal-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":7177,"position":0},"title":"Alinco DX-R8T $499 from Universal Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"December 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"UPDATE -> 02 September 2011: Please click here to read our full review of the Alinco DX-R8T.\u00a0 Universal Radioannounced today that the Alinco DX-R8T will be priced at $499.95 US. 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