{"id":8839,"date":"2014-02-24T10:13:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T14:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8839"},"modified":"2014-02-24T10:13:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T14:13:31","slug":"chris-is-sticking-with-his-trusty-tecsun-pl-660","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/chris-is-sticking-with-his-trusty-tecsun-pl-660\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris is sticking with his trusty Tecsun PL-660"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Chris'<\/a>

Chris’ Tecsun PL-660<\/p><\/div>\n

Shortwave listener and radio producer, Chris Freitas, recently posted an article on his blog<\/a> touting the Tecsun PL-660 as his shortwave portable of choice.<\/p>\n

Click here to check out his post.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shortwave listener and radio producer, Chris Freitas, recently posted an article on his blog touting the Tecsun PL-660 as his shortwave portable of choice. Click here to check out his post.<\/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":[2604,332,34,479,330],"class_list":["post-8839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-chris-freitas","tag-pl-660","tag-shortwave","tag-tecsun","tag-tecsun-pl-660"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2iz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10027,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/maplin-stocks-the-tecsun-pl-660\/","url_meta":{"origin":8839,"position":0},"title":"Maplin stocks the Tecsun PL-660","author":"Thomas","date":"June 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"If you live near a Maplin retail store in the UK\u00a0you'll be happy to note that they now sell\u00a0the excellent Tecsun PL-660 portable radio. 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