{"id":5695,"date":"2022-06-07T20:47:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T03:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5695"},"modified":"2022-06-07T20:48:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T03:48:45","slug":"tecsun-pl-330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5695","title":{"rendered":"Tecsun PL-330"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yes, I bought a new radio. Yet another one. Why, when I already own so many? Because this one was inexpensive, highly-reviewed, and compact, so it would encourage me to toss it in my pack on trips for which I would not want to spend the effort (or allocate the space in my bags) to a larger, more-capable radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First impressions follow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<dl>\n<dt>It\u2019s Small<\/dt>\n<dd>Like, really small. Maybe the size of two decks of playing cards (but a little thicker). And surprisingly light. On the latter point, probably not too durable. But it <em>is<\/em> easy and painless to take with me. Just took it to the neighbourhood park, and it\u2019s amazing how low the noise floor is once you get even a short distance away from houses and power lines.<\/dd>\n<dt>It\u2019s Somewhat Counterintuitive<\/dt>\n<dd>No surprise here. It\u2019s a software-defined receiver. Since it\u2019s controlled by software, user interface is bound to suffer somewhat.<\/dd>\n<dt>It\u2019s Sensitive<\/dt>\n<dd>Surprisingly sensitive, in fact. I picked up Saudi Arabia on 15170 kHz without much difficulty. New Zealand came in in 15720 kHz almost like it was a local station.<\/dd>\n<dt>The Built-In Antenna Works Surprsingly Well<\/dt>\n<dd>I did not use any external antenna in these tests, or antenna extensions. I tried the latter, and it seemed to overload the receiver, so I disconnected the extra wire.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I bought a new radio. Yet another one. Why, when I already own so many? Because this one was inexpensive, highly-reviewed, and compact, so it would encourage me to toss it in my pack on trips for which I would not want to spend the effort (or allocate the space in my bags) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5697,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695\/revisions\/5697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}