{"id":7338,"date":"2013-09-18T07:31:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T11:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7338"},"modified":"2013-09-18T07:31:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T11:31:20","slug":"grundig-g3-discontinued-tecsun-pl-880-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/grundig-g3-discontinued-tecsun-pl-880-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Grundig G3 discontinued, Tecsun PL-880 on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_67\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/g3_selector.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67\" alt=\"The Grundig G3 shortwave radio.\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/g3_selector.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Grundig G3 shortwave radio.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Not really a surprise, but I&#8217;ve confirmed that the <a title=\"G3 posts\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/grundig-g3\" target=\"_blank\">Grundig G3<\/a> has been discontinued. They are still available, for the moment, from <a title=\"Universal Radio\" href=\"http:\/\/universal-radio.com\/catalog\/portable\/4033.html\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Radio<\/a> and online sources like Amazon.com. I would not advise buying from Amazon as I&#8217;ve received numerous complaints that they&#8217;ve shipped faulty units. Universal Radio, on the other hand, is testing each an every G3 leaving their shop.<\/p>\n<p>With the exit of the G3, this leaves Grundig with the following selection of shortwave portables:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Grundig G2 Reporter\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/2012\/01\/grundig-g2-reporter\/\">Grundig G2<\/a>\u00a0Reporter<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Grundig G8 Traveler II\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/portable\/?p=206\">Grundig G8<\/a>\u00a0Traveler II<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Grundig M400\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/portable\/?=221\">Grundig Mini 400<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Grundig S450DLX\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/2010\/12\/grundig-s450dlx\/\">Grundig S450DLX<\/a>\u00a0Field Radio<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Grundig Satellit 750\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/portable\/?=227\">Grundig Satellit 750<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TecsunPL-880Box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7008\" alt=\"TecsunPL-880Box\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TecsunPL-880Box-300x145.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TecsunPL-880Box-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TecsunPL-880Box-1024x497.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TecsunPL-880Box-100x48.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TecsunPL-880Box.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tecsun PL-880<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tecsun, meanwhile, is <em>adding<\/em> to their extensive line of shortwave portables. Indeed, this morning, W4ASZ comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I found this link courtesy of the manly men at Herculodge :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tecsunradio.com\/2013\/09\/14\/new-arrival-tecsun-pl880-fm-radio-dsp-stereo-speaker-coming-soon\/9030\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tecsunradio.com\/2013\/09\/14\/new-arrival-tecsun-pl880-fm-radio-dsp-stereo-speaker-coming-soon\/9030<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking pretty good !&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree and I do feel cautiously optimistic about the Tecsun PL-880. Could it be my new travel radio? Though I still happily travel with the Grundig G3, Sony ICF-SW7600GR and Tecsun PL-380, a guy can&#8217;t have too many radios to choose from!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll plan to review the PL-880 once it&#8217;s available. I&#8217;m particularly interested in seeing how it stacks up against the venerable <a title=\"Tecsun PL-660\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/portable\/?p=473\">Tecsun PL-660<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/tecsun-pl880\">Stay tuned<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not really a surprise, but I&#8217;ve confirmed that the Grundig G3 has been discontinued. They are still available, for the moment, from Universal Radio and online sources like Amazon.com. I would not advise buying from Amazon as I&#8217;ve received numerous complaints that they&#8217;ve shipped faulty units. Universal Radio, on the other hand, is testing each [&hellip;]<\/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":[836,3,26,43],"tags":[22,21,2155,2065,2066],"class_list":["post-7338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-g3","tag-grundig-g3","tag-grundig-g3-discontinued","tag-pl-880","tag-tecsun-pl-880"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1Um","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4498,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/three-years-and-counting-with-grundig-g3\/","url_meta":{"origin":7338,"position":0},"title":"Three years (and counting!) with Grundig G3","author":"Thomas","date":"September 25, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It's hard for me to believe that it's been over three years since I published my first review of the Grundig G3 shortwave radio. 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