{"id":8137,"date":"2013-12-04T19:35:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T23:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8137"},"modified":"2013-12-04T19:35:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T23:35:08","slug":"video-tecsun-pl-880-vs-pl-660-using-the-hidden-dnr-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/video-tecsun-pl-880-vs-pl-660-using-the-hidden-dnr-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Tecsun PL-880 vs. PL-660, using the hidden DNR feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8138\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PL-880-With-Hidden-Keys.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8138\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8138\" alt=\"Photo source: Tecsun PL-880 Yahoo Group\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PL-880-With-Hidden-Keys-229x300.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PL-880-With-Hidden-Keys-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PL-880-With-Hidden-Keys-76x100.jpg 76w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PL-880-With-Hidden-Keys.jpg 697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo source: Tecsun PL-880 Yahoo Group<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In this video, I&#8217;ve tuned both the Tecsun PL-880 and PL-660 to <em>All India Radio<\/em> on 9,445 kHz (transmitted from\u00a0Bengaluru, India, some 8,800 miles away).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to an image of a (prototype?) PL-880 keypad posted on the\u00a0<a title=\"Tecsun PL-880 Yahoo Group\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/neo\/groups\/TecsunPL-880\/conversations\/messages\" target=\"_blank\">Tecsun PL-880 Yahoo Group<\/a>&#8211;an excellent group\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/neo\/groups\/TecsunPL-880\/conversations\/messages\" target=\"_blank\">you should join<\/a>, by the way&#8211;I&#8217;ve discovered that if you press and hold the number <strong>6 <\/strong>on the PL-880 keypad,\u00a0it engages the hidden <strong>DNR<\/strong> function. I assume DNR is an acronym for &#8220;digital noise reduction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I engage the PL-880 DNR feature in this video and compare with the PL-660 audio. \u00a0Again, apologies for quality as this was made using my iPhone.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iIkZDCo1Nkg\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"All posts tagged Tecsun PL-880\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/tecsun-pl-880\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can follow all Tecsun PL-880 updates by bookmarking\/checking this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, I&#8217;ve tuned both the Tecsun PL-880 and PL-660 to All India Radio on 9,445 kHz (transmitted from\u00a0Bengaluru, India, some 8,800 miles away). Thanks to an image of a (prototype?) PL-880 keypad posted on the\u00a0Tecsun PL-880 Yahoo Group&#8211;an excellent group\u00a0you should join, by the way&#8211;I&#8217;ve discovered that if you press and hold the [&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":[836,3,26,129,43,304],"tags":[2065,479,2066,2374,2375,2364,2373],"class_list":["post-8137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","category-news","category-radios","category-reviews","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","tag-pl-880","tag-tecsun","tag-tecsun-pl-880","tag-tecsun-pl-880-am-shortwave","tag-tecsun-pl-880-hidden-feature-dnr","tag-tecsun-pl-880-videos","tag-tecsun-pl-880-vs-pl-660"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-27f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8149,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/video-tecsun-pl-880-vs-pl-660-on-a-local-am-station\/","url_meta":{"origin":8137,"position":0},"title":"Video: Tecsun PL-880 vs. PL-660 on a local AM station","author":"Thomas","date":"December 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In the following video, I have tuned both the Tecsun PL-880 and the PL-660 to a relatively local AM station (880 kHz).\u00a0Note that I had the tone control switch set to \"bass\" on the PL-880 (it would have been better on \"treble\"): For normal AM radio listening, I believe the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mediumwave&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mediumwave","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/mediumwave\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8135,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/video-tecsun-pl-880-vs-pl-660-on-shortwave-am\/","url_meta":{"origin":8137,"position":1},"title":"Video: Tecsun PL-880 vs. PL-660 on shortwave AM","author":"Thomas","date":"December 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Once again, I ventured out to my truck tailgate to make a few videos of the Tecsun PL-880.\u00a0In this video, I've tuned the PL-880 and PL-660 to Deutsche Welle's\u00a0English language service on 9,800 kHz (transmitted from Kigali, Rwanda, some 7,600 miles away). I made this video with my iPhone, so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Products&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Products","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/new-products\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8152,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/video-tecsun-pl-880-vs-pl-660-on-80-meters-ssb\/","url_meta":{"origin":8137,"position":2},"title":"Video: Tecsun PL-880 vs. PL-660 on 80 meters SSB","author":"Thomas","date":"December 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In the following video, I compare single side band reception between the Tecsun PL-880 and PL-660. On 80 meters, in SSB mode, you can hear that the PL-660 has a slightly lower noise floor than the PL-880. \u00a0Note again, however, that I mistakenly had the tone control of the PL-880\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Products&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Products","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/new-products\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8158,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/hidden-feature-adding-seconds-to-the-tecsun-pl-880-clock\/","url_meta":{"origin":8137,"position":3},"title":"Hidden feature: Adding seconds to the Tecsun PL-880 clock","author":"Thomas","date":"December 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A very simple hidden feature: by turning off your Tecsun PL-880, then pressing and holding the number 8 on the keypad, you can turn on the PL-880 clock seconds display. Use the same process to toggle between settings. 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