{"id":8301,"date":"2014-01-03T08:39:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T12:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8301"},"modified":"2014-01-03T08:39:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T12:39:26","slug":"christos-tecsun-pl-390-problems-switching-between-mwlw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/christos-tecsun-pl-390-problems-switching-between-mwlw\/","title":{"rendered":"Christos’ Tecsun PL-390: problems switching between MW\/LW"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TecsunPL-390\"<\/a>Christos’ trusty Tecsun PL-390 started having a problem recently. He writes:<\/p>\n

“My PL-390 can no longer shift from MW [mediumwave] to LW [longwave]. I left it without batteries for some hours in order to achieve a sort of reset, but nothing happened. If I press the MW\/LW button longer than usual, then it start presetting stations.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suspect this could simply be a problem with the contact underneath the LW\/MW button. Has anyone else experienced this problem or found a way to fix it? Please comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christos’ trusty Tecsun PL-390 started having a problem recently. He writes: “My PL-390 can no longer shift from MW [mediumwave] to LW [longwave]. I left it without batteries for some hours in order to achieve a sort of reset, but nothing happened. If I press the MW\/LW button longer than usual, then it start presetting […]<\/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":[8,627,26],"tags":[479,2012,2460],"class_list":["post-8301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-how-to","category-radios","tag-tecsun","tag-tecsun-pl-390","tag-tecsun-pl-390-lwmw"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-29T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29028,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/rolfs-pl-680-modification-allows-external-antenna-on-lw-and-mw\/","url_meta":{"origin":8301,"position":0},"title":"Rolf’s PL-680 modification allows external antenna on LW and MW","author":"Thomas","date":"November 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor,\u00a0Rolf Snijder, who writes: I did a modification today on the Tecsun PL-680 [which allows for an] external antenna on LW and MW. 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