PL-880 Portable Band Radio Receiver with AM/FM/SSB Modes

Soy fan de Tecsun!. Este es el segundo radio que compo en Amazon y la recepción es excepcional. He logrado captar mis emisoras favoritas de la onda corta y decodificar el shortwave radiogram sin una antena externa. El audio es bueno, pero no tanto como el del eton elite field.

Muy bien terminado buena sensibilidad y selectividad algo peor ,posiblemente sea culpa mia de todos los led y electronica que tengo cerca,veo criticas de la AM que aparte de la banda lateral soy un forofo de ambas bandas en am prueben a tener el interruptor de ganancia en Dx sino algunas mas distantes no le llegaran,yo e echo comparaciones con el tecsun pl 330 y el xdata d808 creo que es ese, el que tiene ssb y este el pl-880 les da, veinte bueltas para mi personal con una escala de 0 a 5 mi puntuacion es 4,8,hay lo dejo.

In the 80's through the 90's I was a SWLer (Shortwave Listener). I had a Kenwood R-600 and later upgraded to an R-5000. I was very active in the hobby and collected 100's of QSL cards. Lately I've been feeling nostalgic about the hobby and came across this radio. My R-600 is in dire need of service and I sold my R-5000 years ago so this looked like an interesting way to get back into it even though there are so few international broadcasters anymore. The portability was very appealing as well. I was shocked at how well this radio operates. The fine tuning provides an analog-like tuning experience with smooth tuning. The USB and LSB modes work perfectly and are very stable. You can even change the bandwidth!! I did not expect these features on a low cost portable radio. All I miss from my R-5000 is the notch filter and IF shift. The sound quality is also amazing with a very full bodied sound, not tinny like most portables in this class. So far I've tuned in some AM band stations, such as WBBM in Chicago (I'm in NJ!). I've listened to some ham operators and picked up a few international broadcasters such as Romania. The single sideband modes combined with the variable bandwidth make it easy to hone in on the signal. Having used SW radios before, all of the features made sense to me. If you are new to this, it may be a bit daunting, but that isn't really the radio's fault. If you take the time to learn how to access the features (not too hard) and what they will do for you, you will be rewarded with some impressive performance.

Using it mainly for shortwave and am not disappointed even when using the telescopic antenna by itself. The sound quality is really great as well.

It's all been said for this multi-band radio; lots of excellent reviews as this radio is a real winner, especially for any serious shortwave listener... even with the telescopic aerial/antenna, it produces good signals across the HF band; FM has great sensitivity too, and long-medium wave is a little above most average receivers, which is a same; if an additional RF amplifier stage or even better, a longer/diameter ferrite-rod, would have been the cream on top for this great receiver. Where this radio comes into it's own, is the ability to change the filters to reduce or remove interference QRM, and in some cases QRN; LW-MW can also select filter band-pass too, and there are a number of unofficial un-published button functions, that will provide some useful tweaks to suite your own preferences; search SWLing for this information at: http://swling.com/blog/2014/06/complete-list-of-tecsun-pl-880-hidden-features/ The two changes that need doing for shortwave is, the DNR Dynamic Noise Reduction, and MUTE... however, for most general users, they will be more than happy as the radio comes out of the box, without any tweaks required. If I compare my Icom IC-R75 that's now a little long in the tooth, regarding it design life; the Icom falls short along side the Tecsun PL 880 portable, and so compact with very good sound quality, from such a small package... for the price you get a lot of quality radio technology, considerable thought has been put into this receiver, with great results. I Highly Recommended this receiver. Unfortunately I have now to state one caveat ! after several days of enjoyable use, the pre-charged battery discharged without any indicator showing it was depleting ? I did think this was odd, but now is evident of a faulty charging problem within the receiver; thus had to return to Amazon... having said this, it's still a great receiver and hopefully, my replacement will be as good.