{"id":8094,"date":"2013-12-02T17:49:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T21:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8094"},"modified":"2013-12-02T17:51:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T21:51:04","slug":"hidden-feature-the-tecsun-pl-880-has-a-sync-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/hidden-feature-the-tecsun-pl-880-has-a-sync-detector\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden feature: The Tecsun PL-880 has a sync detector"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tecsun-PL-800-Sync-SWLing-Post\"<\/a>While evaluating the Tecsun PL-880 this afternoon, I discovered a hidden feature: synchronous\u00a0detection<\/em>.<\/p>\n

By pressing and holding<\/em> either the USB\/NORM<\/strong> or LSB\/NORM<\/strong> buttons, you can make the PL-880 sync lock on either the upper or lower side band. By pressing either button momentarily, it simply puts the mode in either upper side band or lower side band.<\/p>\n

Now to properly test it…<\/p>\n

You can follow all Tecsun PL-880 updates by bookmarking\/checking this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While evaluating the Tecsun PL-880 this afternoon, I discovered a hidden feature: synchronous\u00a0detection. By pressing and holding either the USB\/NORM or LSB\/NORM buttons, you can make the PL-880 sync lock on either the upper or lower side band. By pressing either button momentarily, it simply puts the mode in either upper side band or lower […]<\/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":[2065,479,2066,2325,2340,2360,2361],"class_list":["post-8094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-pl-880","tag-tecsun","tag-tecsun-pl-880","tag-tecsun-pl-880-availability","tag-tecsun-pl-880-ebay","tag-tecsun-pl-880-sync-detector","tag-tecsun-pl-880-sync-lock-feature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-26y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8156,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/hidden-feature-adjusting-the-tecsun-pl-880-fm-de-emphasis\/","url_meta":{"origin":8094,"position":0},"title":"Hidden feature: Adjusting the Tecsun PL-880 FM de-emphasis","author":"Thomas","date":"December 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"There has been some confusion (mainly on my part) about the hidden feature behind button number 5. 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