Tecsun PL880 Radio Arrived Today

2014-04-03 Thread Dane Trethowan
I've had the radio for 8 hours and I'm utterly delighted with my purchase, here are a few observations I've made about the radio. Firstly this set is not a killer set when it comes to Medium wave sensitivity though its far from dreadful so if you're looking for a good performing AM set and not

Re: Tecsun PL880 Radio Arrived Today

2014-04-03 Thread covici
I just got mine as well and its seems quite nice -- my environment is not great -- two computers running, but the radio does very well in the short wave and fm bands and the am is not bad at all. I was unable to activate some of the hidden features, however -- holding down the 9 key had no

Re: Tecsun PL880 Radio Arrived Today

2014-04-03 Thread Dane Trethowan
Okay, I can help you with the 9 key, that's the control for the muting threshold so here's what you do assuming you want to turn that off which I'd imagine you do. Hold down the 9 key for 4 seconds and then rotate any of the tuning knobs anti clockwise for say half a turn. Then press the 9

Re: Tecsun PL880 Radio Arrived Today

2014-04-03 Thread tim cumings
dane have you fouhnd any of the problems noted in gthe earlier reviews regarding ssb reception. - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 7:30 AM Subject: Re: Tecsun PL880 Radio

Re: Tecsun PL880 Radio Arrived Today

2014-04-03 Thread covici
OK, I will try that and see what happens. Thanks. Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Okay, I can help you with the 9 key, that's the control for the muting threshold so here's what you do assuming you want to turn that off which I'd imagine you do. Hold down the 9 key for 4

Re: Tecsun PL880 Radio Arrived Today

2014-04-03 Thread Dane Trethowan
Time to get out all the indo I have on all those undocumented functions and put them on list me thinks smile. On 4 Apr 2014, at 1:00 am, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: OK, I will try that and see what happens. Thanks. Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Okay, I can help you

Re: Tecsun PL880 Radio Arrived Today

2014-04-03 Thread Dane Trethowan
No! SSB/CW has been better than I thought, the only thing I wouldn't recommend using at this time is the Synchronus Detection System, that sounds God damn awful so perhaps the firmware will be upgraded at a later time if the users of the radio yell and scream enough smile. As I hardly ever

Re: Tecsun PL880 Radio Arrived Today

2014-04-03 Thread covici
I never would use the sync, with the fine tuning you can get ssb exactly, sounds a very clear signal, almost as if a carrier were there. Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: No! SSB/CW has been better than I thought, the only thing I wouldn't recommend using at this time is the