[Lowfer] Hand Held LW / HF Receiver For When Your Out And About 031817

[Zack Widup]

Is the newer version the PL-880? That's what I saw when I looked for this
radio on Amazon. Or are there different versions of the PL-660 itself?

73, Zack W9SZ

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 6:51 AM, WD8ARZ <wd8arz at comcast.net> wrote:

> Dont want to be away from monitoring Long Wave? Then check
> out the Tecsun PL-660 hand held AA battery operated radio.
>
>
> The larger main analog tuning knob tunes ssb in 1kHz steps. But
> there is a bfo knob that is analog fine tuning that makes it easy to
> adjust for SSB sync, like a ham rig. Also can  step between lsb, usb.
> There is even a 'sync' selection that basically gives you just the upper
> or lower sideband portion of an A.M. signal. It actually works well
> when you get audio distortion on a fading in and out A.M. signal in
> normal a.m. mode, use sync and select the side band that is clearer
> depending on what strong signals are near by.
>
> Tune knob has setting options too. I prefer the option that lets me
> tune across a band in fast mode if I speed up my rotation of the
> main tuning knob. If I slow down my tuning, it goes to the small
> frequency tuning rate. Very convenient.
>
> Am guessing the slower tuning is 10Hz steps, but it could be less.
> Thus it is like typical ham receivers. I intentionally avoided
> receivers that tuned in kHz steps only.
>
> The tuning system has options for tuning in steps if you want to. A
> button in the upper right corner near the display read out can step
> the tuning rate increments. For example you could tune across the
> A.M. broadcast band in 10kHz steps if you wanted to.
>
> Here is a link that will show you how to do an alignment and it
> includes setting sideband.
> http://rholm.tumblr.com/post/63643179578/tecsun-pl-660-ssb-b
> fo-alignment-alternate-title
>
> By the way, you have options on using rechargeable, or none
> rechargeable AA batteries with this radio. Not trusting any radio to
> handle the recharging of its batteries to maximize battery life, I
> always do the battery re-charging out side of the radio using the
> designated charger from the manufacture. Be it nicad or Ni-MH.
> I have four sets of rechargeable batteries for this radio in my grab
> and go kit. Of course have long life standard alkaline AA batteries
> too as a back up if no recharging is available for a long period of
> time.
>
> Note that older versions of this radio have an option to select a
> time interval when no buttons or tuning knob has been touched
> for auto power off of the radio. In the newer version of the radio
> the off setting is a timer with out regard to touching buttons or
> tuning or not.
>
> Also note that the newer version of this radio has a hotter long
> wave band using its built in antenna. Instructions are poor for
> getting into the long wave band that tunes 100 - 519kHz. Just
> press the A.M. mode button a second time while in standard
> broadcast band 520-1710kHz, then you can tune long wave.
>
> Am considering getting a second PL-660 for my emergency grab
> and go kit.
>
> 73 from Bill WD8ARZ a long time shortwave listener.
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