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Thinking of buying either radio and your performance tests were invaluable! TY for the post.🙂

Loved the sound of the rain in the background. In California we forget what that sounds like ;)

I would love to see a similar review of the Eton Elite Executive vs Tecsun PL880 or PL990X in SW but connected to an external antenna such as MLA-30

Tom's radio room show the Eton Elite satellite Mw lw fm air sw ssb is awesome my friend

Tom's radio room show on the two shortwave receivers clip a long wire on the antenna my friend

Tecsun 880 obviously has it all over this new Eton, sorry to say. It's amazing that the Eton appears to have gotten through stages of design and final production with these faults..

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The sync detector works best when you are as close to being "dead on" in frequency as possible. The station you were listening to was broadcasting on 6150 KHz. For some reason, you tuned to 6149 KHz. To make matters worse, you then set the fine tuning on SSB using the 6149 KHz frequency as a base. You were then way off true frequency. The fine tune settings on SSB remain at the last setting until you set them again. They do not reset for normal power cycles. So your fine tune setting was acting like an offset to the SSB frequency, and you were, as I said, way off. If you had set the frequency to 6150, then set it to SSB and fine tuned it on 6150, then engaged the sync, the sync would have worked much better. I mentioned this to you several videos ago. Trying to sync on 6149 KHz is not going to work if the station is broadcasting on 6150 KHz. Having the fine tune setting so far off also was causing the distortion when you finally got the frequency tuned right at 6150 KHz in sync mode. The fine tune settings affects the sync much as the BFO on the Grundig Satellit 700 affects the sync detector on that radio. I have tested one of these against a Tecsun PL-880, and it was more sensitive on the whip antenna than my PL-880. Given the wide variances in quality control on these radios, I hesitate to draw too many conclusions, but . your Eton Satellit is acting like you have the attenuator set to local. I asked you this before and you said it was set to DX. Was this eyeballing the switch, or did you physically move it back an forth to make sure it was set all the way in DX? If so, possibly the input sensitivity was damaged during your attempts to get the stereo external antenna jack to work. Or, you may just have a dud. Why don't you just return it? The muting during tuning seems to have you so flustered you are not being fair to yourself or the radio.

Dalibor, Tom reviewed the Kaito 1103 and you might want to check that one out, it's impressive! If a person can afford the Satellite 750 it's expensive but looks like a good one. I have the older Satellite 800 and I like it and I guess a fella gets what he pays for. Tom might have some more ideas on these radios but if I had a choice on a tight budget I would go with the Kaito 1103.

thanks for putting this video up .... I've been looking to get a new portable sw radio and it was a toss up between these two .

Tom's radio room show your Tecsun pl 880 mw lw fm sw ssb is awesome my friend

The eton satteit is EXACTLY like my Grundig g5.Right down to the hole /reset button on right side. Listen to my G5 nearly every day The G5 size and weight make radio quite handy as i can keep it in my scoter basket and listen to AM and FM broadcat, Need to study the synch mode

When you sync'ing if LSB is noisy like that flip to USB while sync is activated you're getting a channel on the lower side bleeding in .My Satellite 800 is like that if LSB is wonky on Sync go to USB while in Sync mode and use a narrower filter too if you have to . It wont do it all for you sadly..you have to massage the signal's out.The Sat . 800 does admirable once you turn sync on and select upper/lower and filter width that works at that time.

My Tecsun 660 was an early one and I had all kinds of problems with it and that pretty well turned me off on Tecsun 660.

I love the eton executive radio I have...I feel like the new eton radio reception has been improved compared to eton satellite

Amazing video review...Thanks for making it...looking forward for more of your videos...

Eton Satellit has 10 Hz Fine Tuning mode while in SSB. Warbling can be eliminated very effectively. Page 17 of the manual. No need to return the radio if you like SSB.

Thanks

Always very informative videos....many thanks....regards from the u.k

Hello I will give you my opinion on several Tecsun receivers. I tested the PL660 and the PL880 because both have the airplane band. Previously I had bought the PL880 whose sound of the speaker has always made me dream. I am French and we have a lot of radios on the Parisian FM which prevents me from testing the FM quality. I left in the countryside with FM transmitters in Amiens around 50 kilometers and as I was looking for a good receiver in LW, MW, SW and FM I could see that the 680 and 660 were worth nothing in FM compared to the PL880. It's really the one that captures distant FM while the other two have only noise. The big problem is that I miss the air band and the RDS. So I banish the 680 and the 660. I would like to test the ELTON Satellite which seems to me complete but the FM is it as sensitive as on the 880? I also thought of SANGEAN but no air band. So if you have an idea for my Christmas it would be nice.

I really only care about ssb and I'm just not sure what radio to purchase. Anywhere from $80-$200 is what I am looking for. Oh, and portable for us in hotels on business travel.

One thing suggested to me with the g3 that worked well is to tune 1khtz below your intended frequency before enabling sync. So 6149 in this case?

The readout on the Eton is easier to see vs the Tecsun. Eton has a lot of updating to do on their radio especially on the muting. The Eton needs a lot of refinement done on it and they need to watch the reviews on it. I had the Tecsun 660 and wasn't very impressed with it after it kept locking up the processor which had to be reset. Good comparison between the two radios, Thanks.

I'm considering getting a new radio pretty soon , which one of these would you recommend ? I also like the sangean 909 . At the moment I'm using the degen 1103 non dsp and the tecsun 660 .regards .

I have an Eton Elite Executive that behaves nothing like your example -- very sensitive on the whip, more so than my Tecsun 680. With variations in build quality being what they are, I'm wondering if your Eton might just be a bad build? It's surprising to watch, compared to what I'm used to with my example. Just a thought.

Does the 880 have an external antenna jack?

Hi Tom! At this moment I have this Eton Executive Satellit. I’m thinking about to change this radio for the Tecsun S2000 or Tecsun PL-880. Which one do you recommend? Hugs from Brazil🇧🇷

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aviation band? RDS?

Crazy how expensive these plastic chinese radios are. I could see 80$.

I just bought this radio that I had delivered from Amazon USA because in France impossible to have it. This radio is a disappointment to me first of all I was told about an exceptional reception, Nothing of that ! the LW band is shabby, the FM ok but nothing more and MW OK. In addition the parasitic lighting reception and even disease the radio does not hold in place relative to the weight of the antenna. Again my PL880 is far from being beaten. I wonder if I will not make a return! what a christmas present!

Toms radio I have Eton Elite Executive is pice junk I. Am go to geting Tecsun 909x

Max Grundig is flipping in his grave at the crap that they plaster his name on these days.

You and I have many of the same radios. Of all my radios my realistic is my favorite.

The performance, sensitivity and selectivity on my Eton Elite executive are bloody outstanding and I get every frequency the pl 880, the pl990 and the 501x gets. Odd result on your demonstration tbh.

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You can tell this is an old video... The Eton is now about 120.00 on ebay (New) and the Pl-880 are goin for about 130. on ebay as well...

DSP receiver can't sync

It seems to me that sync distortion from a fair signal is quite distorted and unintelligible on the Eton. It also seems that the Eton is not as intuitive to use when compared to the PL-880 Tecsun. Also, the PL-880 has much superior audio compared to the Eton. I purchased the Tecsun PL-880 along with the Tecsun A< Tunable loop. I am extremely pleased with both! I have had mine for around a year and use it every day with zero problems. A very fine radio IMHO.

Wanted to see this comparison for a while. Thank you! New eton radios are junk. So many production flaws. i do love their external design though. Why does putting your hand on the antenna make it better? Grounding?

This Eton Satellite is so bad. Tecsun looks better, works better and it's cheaper. I am not sure where Eton is going with everything. Tecsun DR920 is same radio as Eton 1100 and it's less than half a price. This just does not make any sense. Good video.

Please test your radios using a decent external antenna, and pretty much forget the whip testing. Whips suck, plain and simple. Thanks.

Us aliens use these too.

Bye-bye Eton.

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