Brief Tecsun PL-660 Version 2 Review

 

 

Thanks, Gary:

Here's a message from someone with a Version 2 PL-660: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TecsunPL660/message/133 ant gain switch: listening to a AM station and toggling the 'ant gain' switch between the 3 available positions, does not do anything. backlight: 1) pressing the 'light/snooze' button, the backlight stays on for 30secs. 2) pressing any of the other front panel buttons, the backlight comes on for 3 secs. 3) if rotating the tuning knob, the backlight will stay on continuously until rotating stops. and then goes off after 3 secs. so the backlight stays on for both 3 secs and 30 secs depending on what you use :) and in my mind, seems to work as intended. what i mean by that is, why would the backlight 'need' to be on for 30secs if i am pressing for example, just the AM wide/narrow band button? i also have the feature on my unit to manually select any of the 3 'slow/fast/auto' tuning steps (when using the tuning knob), which i am led to believe was implemented on the 2nd production run.

Comments

[Doug]

Gary——I just received my Version 1 last week from Kaito USAS, and your V. 2 doesn't sound all that much different. My backlight illumination function has the 3-second time when I punch any button except the light/snooze, 30 seconds when I press the light/snooze button (rather I guess it does as I have never left it on for more than 8 or 10; just wanted to see how it worked); and the light stays on the whole time the tuning knob is being turned. So apparently no huge differences. BTW, I agree totally with you, and posted same in an earlier thread here: Why do you need an automatic 30 second backlight? Why is this a plus? I prefer the 3 second backlight combined with the continuous backlight controlled by the tuning knob combined with the ability to turn it on longer via the light/snooze button. As for the Ant Gain, I have noticed a difference between DX and Local. Not a dramatic difference by any means, in fact a very subtle one, but a difference nonetheless. Thanks for this posting as I was wondering what improvements I might be missing out on. Seems like not much.