{"id":9370,"date":"2014-04-24T06:49:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T10:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9370"},"modified":"2014-04-24T06:49:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T10:49:17","slug":"monitoring-while-recording-on-the-tecsun-pl-660","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/monitoring-while-recording-on-the-tecsun-pl-660\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring while recording on the Tecsun PL-660"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BlueTooth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9371\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BlueTooth.jpg\" alt=\"BlueTooth\" width=\"848\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BlueTooth.jpg 848w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BlueTooth-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BlueTooth-100x41.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"@LondonShortwave on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LondonShortwave\/status\/459040476902211584\" target=\"_blank\">London Shortwave<\/a>\u00a0has discovered an innovative way to monitor broadcasts while recording from\u00a0his Tecsun PL-660. <a title=\"This description comes from his YouTube video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bH8skitNOG0&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">He writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Tecsun PL-660 doesn&#8217;t have a line out, which means that when recording from it one has to use a pair of headphones to listen to it simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Most portable speakers I&#8217;ve tried generate tremendous amounts of RFI when connected directly to the receiver. I solved this problem by using <a title=\"Check it out on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004B8GF7Y\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=B004B8GF7Y&amp;link_code=as3&amp;tag=swlcom01-20\" target=\"_blank\">TaoTronics BA-01<\/a> Bluetooth audio transmitter and a Bluetooth enabled portable speaker, together with a cable that splits the audio output into two, so the transmitter and the audio recorder can both be connected to the radio.<\/p>\n<p>The recording [<a title=\"View it on YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bH8skitNOG0&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">in this YouTube video<\/a>] is of Radio Australia and was made in London, UK on 09\/04\/2014 at 1543 BST.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bH8skitNOG0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Shortwave\u00a0has discovered an innovative way to monitor broadcasts while recording from\u00a0his Tecsun PL-660. He writes: &#8220;Tecsun PL-660 doesn&#8217;t have a line out, which means that when recording from it one has to use a pair of headphones to listen to it simultaneously. Most portable speakers I&#8217;ve tried generate tremendous amounts of RFI when connected [&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":[627,3,26,43,304],"tags":[2783,533,2785,2784,2704,332,2786,479,330],"class_list":["post-9370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","tag-bluetooth","tag-bluetooth-shortwave-radio","tag-field-recordings","tag-line-in","tag-london-shortwave","tag-pl-660","tag-taotronics-ba-01","tag-tecsun","tag-tecsun-pl-660"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2r8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12349,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/a-review-of-the-tecsun-pl-680-with-reader-survey-results\/","url_meta":{"origin":9370,"position":0},"title":"A review of the Tecsun PL-680 with reader survey results","author":"Thomas","date":"February 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"When I heard early reports about the new Tecsun PL-680, I was already wondering how\u00a0it would\u00a0stack up alongside\u00a0other Tecsun portables. 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