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Mike Mander
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 25 ก.ย. 2012
Three SW Radio Reviews - Teaser
This is a teaser video of sorts, just to indicate that I plan on publishing three different radio reviews in the upcoming weeks... or months, depending on my free time! I will be reviewing the Eton 'Grundig Edition' Satellit, the C.Crane CC Skywave SSB and the Tecsun PL-880.
You may have seen my previous video on how to calibrate a Tecsun PL-660, but I ended up selling it to a good friend of mine, and unfortunately no longer have that radio to review, although I may mention it during some comparisons.
If anyone watching this has any special requests, specific things they'd like to see covered in my upcoming review videos, please leave those requests as comments below. No promises, but I will make an effort to accommodate them...
You may have seen my previous video on how to calibrate a Tecsun PL-660, but I ended up selling it to a good friend of mine, and unfortunately no longer have that radio to review, although I may mention it during some comparisons.
If anyone watching this has any special requests, specific things they'd like to see covered in my upcoming review videos, please leave those requests as comments below. No promises, but I will make an effort to accommodate them...
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Tecsun PL-660 Frequency Offset Calibration
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This video demonstrates how to recalibrate the Tecsun PL-660, if it is reading the wrong frequency when tuned on-station. Update 2/4/2018: My technical contact confirmed that only very recent versions of the PL-660 can be calibrated in this way, so apologies for getting your hopes up if you have an older version where this does not work. That said, I find it outstanding that Tecsun is listening...
Thank you for this video. I’m getting one of these radios, and I’ll be sure to try this out.
Thank you ! I've notice some frequency drift in the FM band. Will calibrate this evening 😀
Although I have become accustomed to poor quality control from Chinese products, I am looking forward to trying this on my 660 which suffers from this problem. Oh for the days of quality workmanship with Telefunken or even Sony. Incidentally, why did Sony stop making SW radios?
This doesn't work with my 660 gives a error when you push the 1 to set it
Nice job. 😊👍
thank you mike
Thanks for this. Do the new ones that are currently for sale, still have this issue?
Works for MW band!
I have an issue that was wondering if you could comment? My PL-660 for some reason when I am on MW band, the frequency will only go up to 1620 and down to 522, I no longer have the range of 520 to 1710. Any thoughts?
My new pl680 is about 4 khz off, do I have to calibrate every radio station signal or just one and then rest of them will be all properly calibrated?
Does it retain the correction?
My 660 is 5 MHz too high on FM, sadly, it's too old to support calibration.
Thanks Mike. Is there any further news on when (or if) the reviews will be complete?
Hi Dave, very sorry but my time these days is extremely constrained. I still have these three radios, and recently added an XHDATA D-808 as well. However, I have not done much shortwave listening in the past few years at all and only bought the D-808 on its reputation and some closeout pricing. I was enthusiastically planning on reviewing those first three radios, but then also realized I am not at all an authority on shortwave. There are many others producing youtube reviews with tons more experience than I have. So my apologies, but I am honestly not sure if I'll ever review these. Best regards...
Your video is very good and your tips are of extreme interest to everyone in love with TECSUN radios. Thank you and big hug from Brazil 🇧🇷👍😎
I accidentally turned on some strange mode at Tecsun680. The frequency count from 000khz appeared on the screen. I started turning the encoder - the frequency reached 100 kHz. Is this also a correction mode? I was unable to replicate my accidental clicks. I can only say for sure that my receiver does not need correction. It was perfectly tuned at the factory before shipping. No problem! Firmware 6620. Once 4 years ago, the valcoder jammed. The problem was solved in 10 minutes with the help of a micro drop of liquid "WD40" and synthetic oil. Works great.
Майк, благодарю Вас! Нашёл только Ваше видео и решил проблемму смещения на своём PL660! Круто!!!
Thanks, it's very useful information
How is the battery life with good batteries bough on speaker and headset?
Excellent video!
SW & AM recalibration don’t work on my 660. I push & hold “air” as you instruct & the radio immediately goes to the air frequency. No blinking light. FM recalibration works just fine on my 660.
what firmware needs ?
The calibration works also in SSB mode ?
Brilliant ! You just saved me sending back a newly received PL660 - THANKYOU !
What is the width of filters in SSB narrow/wide for Tecsun pl660? Firmware 6622
Спасибо, это очень полезная информация. Некоторые знакомые разбирали приёмник и крутили отвёрткой... это было глупо)) Благодарю что научили!👍🤝
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I have a Sangean 909X2 which is appears to be off calibration, but only on wide bandwidth. It's right on the money in narrow. No calibration method that I'm aware of. I'm wondering if this is normal operation, as it appears that the radio simply offsets the passband when going wider.
Is this radio rechargeable?
Thank you so much Mike for sharing this, it saved my PL 660 bargain.
I have a 680 and this works for the FM band. Thank you so so much for making this video.
Mine PL660 the same only works for FM
Brilliant! Thank you!👍🤓
I have owned many radios over the years and never had one where the frequency drifted like just happened on this one. Why does this model have frequencies that drift?
Really excellent video. I just purchased a PL680 where FM was way off and this is solved the problem perfectly. Thank you so much Mike. Gary L
Mike, can the Airband be calibrated? Mine is out by .1
Thank you, that was very helpful.
I have an older version so it doesn't work with mine. Thank you for the information anyway.
Did you find a way to calibrate?
@@Columbocops No, it only works with newer versions of this radio. It's still a very good radio though.
Will this work on a pl-680 too?
I have the same pl660, but I cannot calibrate FM, press sync for many seconds and nothing. If I press air it shows an airplane. Can somebody help me calibrate fm in this pl660? Thanks
My Tecsun pl-660 will not calibrate like that doing those steps. It's a brand new one. Any idea why?
Do you know if the tecsun pl-600 has this feature?
Thank you very much!..My Tecsun 660 FM is now properly calibrated. 5 stars
Finally got my replacement PL-660 ( the last one was bad). So , it came to me, off frequency, so I’m having to come back to this video, to do my new radio. Again, thanks for the video. 📻🙂
What about offset in airband? My 680 is 4khz offset. Is there a way to calibrate airband? I made some combinations with buttons but nothing.
Superb video Mike! Works on the 680 too. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this and you explain it SO well!! Great! Laurie
Very nice! Just recalibrated FM on mine. Thank you.
Awesome tip!! Thanks! Love my PL 660!
👍 Tks, very interesting video
Worked for yours but not mine. Push and hold the Air button and it stays on Air Band. Mine is off 5. I have one Mfg. Around 2015.
Tnx you so much Mike, 73 ! 👍 📻
Should I get a spare antenna for mine? I just received the radio yesterday? Do you think the antenna will last through normal use? How do I prevent the corona ball from falling off?