{"id":1243,"date":"2014-03-05T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2014-03-05T10:45:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:45:01","slug":"melson-s8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/2014\/03\/melson-s8\/","title":{"rendered":"Melson S8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00FEQVENM\/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00FEQVENM&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=swlcom01-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B00FEQVENM&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=swlcom01-20\" width=\"160\" height=\"144\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=swlcom01-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00FEQVENM\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThe Melson S8 is a DSP-based portable AM\/FM\/Shortwave receiver with MP3 playback. What sets the Melson apart from other sub $50 portables is the exceptional response from the radio&#8217;s built-in speaker.<\/p>\n<p>While shortwave reception is mediocre&#8211;with a high noise floor on some bands&#8211;AM and FM are average for this class of portable. The MP3 playback feature is truly amazing. With a 16 GB MicroSD card inserted (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00DYQYLQQ\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00DYQYLQQ&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=swlcom01-20\">widely available for $10 or less<\/a>) a listener has weeks of audio listening at their disposal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specifications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FM: 64.0MHz &#8211; 108.0MHz<\/li>\n<li>AM: 520KHz &#8211; 1710KHz<\/li>\n<li>SW1: 2.3-11.99MHz<\/li>\n<li>SW2: 12-23MHz<\/li>\n<li>Sensitivity:<\/li>\n<li>FM&lt;3uV Speaker: 3 watts<\/li>\n<li>Earphones: 3.5 mm<\/li>\n<li>Power:<\/li>\n<li>Li-ion battery<\/li>\n<li>5V DC USB<\/li>\n<li>Dimensions: 6&#8243; x 3 \u00be&#8221; x 1 \u00bc&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Weight: 8 Oz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Accessories:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rechargeable battery<\/li>\n<li>USB cable<\/li>\n<li>Audio cable<\/li>\n<li>Back stand<\/li>\n<li>Lanyard<\/li>\n<li>User manual<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Retailers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00DYQYLQQ\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00DYQYLQQ&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=swlcom01-20\">Check Amazon.com for Melson S8 pricing.<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00DYQYLQQ\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00DYQYLQQ&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=swlcom01-20\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=9&#038;pub=5574879351&#038;toolid=10001&#038;campid=5337458232&#038;customid=&#038;icep_uq=Melson+S8&#038;icep_sellerId=&#038;icep_ex_kw=&#038;icep_sortBy=12&#038;icep_catId=&#038;icep_minPrice=&#038;icep_maxPrice=&#038;ipn=psmain&#038;icep_vectorid=229466&#038;kwid=902099&#038;mtid=824&#038;kw=lg\">Click here to search eBay for the Melson S8.<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;padding:0;margin:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/roverimp\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?ff3=9&#038;pub=5574879351&#038;toolid=10001&#038;campid=5337458232&#038;customid=&#038;uq=Melson+S8&#038;mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Melson S8 is a DSP-based portable AM\/FM\/Shortwave receiver with MP3 playback. What sets the Melson apart from other sub $50 portables is the exceptional response from the radio&#8217;s built-in speaker. While shortwave reception is mediocre&#8211;with a high noise floor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/2014\/03\/melson-s8\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[515,122,18],"tags":[594,516,517],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-melson","category-mp3","category-portables","tag-melson","tag-melson-m8","tag-melson-s8"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f4Ph-k3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}