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

[WD8ARZ]

The newer MODEL radio is the PL-880. Not part of the discussion in this 
thread about the PL-660. Have heard from others with both radios that 
the ssb is 'different' on the eight eighty.

PL-660 is a Different Model and is still being sold. This version radio 
has had a number of revisions that do not show up in the model number. 
Would be nice if there was a serial number break down of when and what 
circuit changes were done. Came to my attention about the differences 
due to my having purchased two a couple years apart or so.

Wish they would add a serial port to this great hand held small radio to 
help manage the two thousand memories.

Somewhere on line there is an article of an outfit that has tested this 
radio and a few others, and lists the comparisons of them.

This make / model radio for a "hand held that uses four standard AA 
batteries" and has stable ssb with ham bands, doesnt  really have a 
comparable model out in this class - comparable must at least meet the 
660 features for size, standard batteries, and analog tuning. Other 
models in this size range dont usually use standard batteries or have 
analog tuning, or are much larger.

What I would especially like to see in a future version is a a serial 
port to manage the memories. 73 .... Bill ........ out

On 3/19/2017 11:06 AM, Zack Widup wrote:
> 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.
>>
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