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Tom writes:
The Tecsun PL 310 is basically a refinement of the PL 300 model, AKA Grundig G8. There's also rumors of a Tecsun PL 330 and 380 waiting in the wings. The use of DSP chips are the greatest advancement of radio design in many years.
Last night, Gary DeBock picked up an eastern Europe AM station using this radio from his home on the coast of Washington state.
Update: Pablo was kind enough to provide a link to a preview of these new Tecsun models.
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"Last night, Gary DeBock picked up an eastern Europe AM station using this radio from his home on the coast of Washington state."
Was the radio modified in any way? The ultralight folks seem to appreciate radios that can have their antennas modified.
Posted by: weatherall | October 16, 2009 at 09:36 AM
wheres the SSB ? selectivity would be nice on the ham bands, where even my DE1103 on 'narrow' is too wide
Posted by: mo | October 16, 2009 at 10:33 AM
I don't believe the radio is modified. Here is the post on ultralighdx:
"Hello All,
The PL-310 continues to amaze owners with its ability to split off transoceanic DX from domestic stations, especially with its 1 kHz DSP filtering option.
Alerted by the IRCA list of a great TA opening here on the west coast last night, I tuned in Croatia-1134 on the new PL-310 at 0353 UTC (8:53PM local time), and found a fair signal from the TA, even on the stock loopstick.
Grabbing my MP3 recorder, I headed for the back yard and was able to inductively couple the PL-310 to a 6' (side) PVC-frame tuned passive loop. The resulting MP3 of strong pop music from 1134-Croatia has been uploaded to the Ultralightdx sound file section, in which the PL-310's 1 kHz DSP filter did a great job in limiting the splatter from 1130-CKWX, a strong daytimer here.
73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA)"
Posted by: Gary | October 16, 2009 at 01:59 PM
Gary DeBock was using a stock PL-310 radio according to his post on Yahoo's ULR group forum. However, you're right, these URL folks tend to do mods that's well beyond most of our skill sets.
Posted by: Tom Welch | October 16, 2009 at 02:03 PM
one for herc's living room:
http://cgi.ebay.com/RCA-VICTOR-D22-1-RARE-22-TUBE-RADIO_W0QQitemZ320436127218QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4a9b7b45f2
Posted by: kr | October 16, 2009 at 08:06 PM