About the battery level indicator, I have the new version and it works just fine. After a full charge it does indicate full, then gradually indicates drain after a couple days of use.
Hi. Thank you for this. I have both versions of the D808. With the exception of the display colour, there are no real differences between them. The D808 remains the best value radio in its class. 73s and GDX.
Thank you for this! I learned something new-to-me which I will use next time I pull my hxdata out. That lock button though! I think it's in a terrible spot and I still hit it accidentally. It took me forever to realize what happened first time I did it.
I've been enjoying watching your videos on the xhdata d-808 and the Tecsun pl-330. I have some thoughts, particularly around the soft muting while tuning. It seems that, oddly enough, having more QRM in the environment makes the d-808 less annoying to tune. Presumably the noise is coming through the MLA-30? I've tuned SW on the whip and it feels quite slow to me to scan around the bands, unless some noise does show up. It seems the 330 might be slightly slower to respond while tuning, but its overall more consistent between noise and no noise on the band. I did note the overloading with the MLA-30 on the 808, how is this on the pl-330? From the videos I've seen, it seems to have a better circuit for external antennae. Of course, the answer to no muting is to spend the money and get something like the pl-880 or 990.
I have a more recent D-808 with the orange display. The trick of starting the freq with a zero doesn't work. The display will then show an "error" message.
@@OfficialSWLchannel Thanks for your helpful response. Sorry about this, but on another matter, can you advice on what adapters are needed to convert from the sma plug on the ml-30+ antenna to plug into the Jack socket on the side of the XHDATA D-808?
@OfficialSWLchannel OK, I am making progress. It likes to jump to another frequency after a few seconds. So I simply hit frequency button again to hold that chosen frequency? I will work on it some more. It is way more computerized than my hf rig I bought in '96. Thank you for the help.
DSP based receivers are all like that. this is a low priced radio, you need to either go to older PLL receivers that are still available or higher End receivers like the Tecsun 880 990 h-501x or Sangean ATS-909X2 to voir the muting
