{"id":675,"date":"2015-11-23T14:08:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T04:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/?p=675"},"modified":"2015-11-23T14:08:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T04:08:14","slug":"pl680-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/pl680-review\/","title":{"rendered":"PL680 Reviews &#8211; Silicon Chip Magazine and More!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/product\/tecsun-pl660-radio-vhf-air-band\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tecsun PL680<\/a> has been a long time coming to the Australian market so we\u2019re very excited that <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconchip.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Silicon Chip Magazine<\/a><\/em> has featured this great new addition to our range of radios in their most recent December 2015 magazine\u2019s Product Showcase.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_679\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-679\" class=\"wp-image-679 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2901-e1448250954340-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Tecsun PL680 is featured in Silicon Chip Magazine December 2015\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2901-e1448250954340-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2901-e1448250954340-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tecsun PL680 is featured in Silicon Chip Magazine December 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cFor keen shortwave listeners, you\u2019ll notice the difference in the PL680.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8211; Silicon Chip Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And the Silicon Chip team aren\u2019t the only ones excited about the upgrades. Here are just a few other reviews the PL680 has received:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWorth the upgrade.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/a-review-of-the-tecsun-pl-680-with-reader-survey-results\/\" target=\"_blank\">swling.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cTecsun certainly gives you a lot of bang for your buck.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisfreitas.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/09\/tecsun-pl-680-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Freitas, <em>On Radio Blog<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The PL680 was featured and reviewed in <em>Silicon Chip Magazine<\/em> alongside the new Tecsun PL365 giving two of our most popular portable receivers a major makeover, making them even better value for money.<\/p>\n<p>The PL680 radio with VHF Air Band is a great radio for communications\u00a0enthusiasts with the radio providing excellent reception to all of the major frequency bands including AM\/MW, FM, Shortwave with SSB, Longwave, and VHF Air Band.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/product\/tecsun-pl360-radio\/\">Tecsun PL365<\/a> is the only radio in the Tecsun range (apart from the <a href=\"http:\/\/tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/product\/tecsun-s2000-desktop-radio\/\">Tecsun S2000 Desktop Radio<\/a>)\u00a0to provide an external antenna connection for the AM\/MW band. The Tecsun PL365 Radio is an ideal radio to use for AM\/MW EMI\u00a0surveys because of its external AM antenna, ability to accept customised antennas and display showing signal strength in dBuV.<\/p>\n<p>Both radios are\u00a0available and in stock now, right in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tecsun PL680 has been a long time coming to the Australian market so we\u2019re very excited that Silicon Chip Magazine has featured this great new addition to our range of radios in their most recent December 2015 magazine\u2019s Product Showcase. \u201cFor keen shortwave listeners, you\u2019ll notice the difference in the PL680.\u201d &#8211; Silicon Chip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10,9,17],"tags":[28,16,40,42,18,11,12,15,14],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new","category-radio","category-reviews","category-tecsun","tag-amateur","tag-hamradio","tag-pl365","tag-pl680","tag-quality","tag-radio","tag-review","tag-silicon-chip","tag-tecsun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}