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Thanks for the info! I have the adapter. Somewhere!?? Used on mine about 6 years ago. Have a great day.

Thanks again!

I like my 680.

@@hamrad88 Thank you for getting back to me. I will pick up the 680.

I have both and the 990 is much better overall. I am not an expert.

With this short tests, could not find much. With my first one, the SSB could not be tuned in at all. The second one was better but not much. Was hoping to see if Jeff's worked much better on SSB. Will have to do more testing.

There is no way to know. The manufacture is no longer updating the revision numbers. The last revision which was soon after the release was 8820. That did not fix all the problems so they stopped updating the version number.

@@hamrad88 Sounds like sneaky sales tactics ... Why buy it then ?

Many thanks

Joan Amigó And thanks for watching. 📻🙂

Thanks for the info. I tried LSB later in the day and still nothing heard. Have a great day.

@@hamrad88 That's too bad....say when are we gonna start getting some good HF conditions?

@@solidaudioTV We're at the bottom of the Sunspot cycle, things should start to pick up within the next year. KQ2N

@@garys.7846 we may be but there's still great activity on many bands, I've been making great DX from Ireland to South America on 20m with just the FT-891 and a Chameleon MPAS 2.0 since May :-) Got to Chile On 40 M a couple of weeks ago one night on the 7300 and my myantennas.com EFHW. So the bands might be up and down but there's is always activity, if more people got off FT8 and started talking things would be better.

They have had lots of revisions and stopped updating the build info for fear people would ask for updates.

Thanks

Thanks for the info and have a great day.

Thanks. I had tried that before doing this show and nothing there either. Thanks for the suggestion.

Way too early in the Summer for 20m. that's more of an afternoon band. At least here in the USA.

I tried both USB and LSB later in the day with no luck. Have a great day.

@Sean Kelly I appreciate your idea and it has some merrit but my objection with the PL880 is the high noise floor between transmissions because the agc is so prevelant. I'm very spoiled because my favorite radio is an R392 with an external product detector. If you pull the antenna of that radio its dead quiet. The 880 is pretty noisey with no antenna. I hope this makes some kind of sense. Thank you and take care...

@Sean Kelly The R390a is a great receiver but I could never afford one. I spent 6 years in the Navy as a CTM and worked on literally hundreds of them. We had to do total PMs every 90 days. Yes the oil and grease did dry out in them. The RF gain on the 390a and the 392 isn't just on the input , it adjusts the rf and if stage gain and is independant of the agc. That's why it works so well. The PL880 and radios like it are max gain all the time, which is why they are so noisey. Any way that's how I see it. Take care...

@@hamrad88 160M, 80M, 40M - LSB. All higher ham bands - USB.

I tried both and just nothing to be found at that time on any of the bands either upper or lower. Thanks for your comments and have a great day.

@@hamrad88 Lower sideband is traditionally used on 160 M, 80 M & 40 M. From 20 M & higher upper sideband is used. CBers have settled on LSB. Glenn, KB9IN.

@@ambush1sg Thanks. My memory she not so good anymore.

Thanks for the report.

@ Sean Kelly - Ha! No, I purchased some rechargeable batteries and a charger from Amazon for it. It’s now my “portable” SW radio. Also, if I ever decide to jump on a Tecsun S-8800 I’ll be “good to go” since it uses the same batteries. I have now received my Eton Elite 750 and it’s everything that I had hoped, but I’m using it exclusively as a desktop SW receiver. Which it is. It’s a very good performer but really doesn’t “come alive” with excellent S/N ratios until you feed it an external antenna. I’m really impressed with the overall construction of it compared to the early Grundig 750’s. The knobs are all silky smooth as is the operation of the rotatable ferrite rod. My only complaint is the display and S-meter lighting should be brighter. I don’t know why they haven’t gone to LED lighting after all this time. And it needs a front “bail” to get it up to convenient eye level. Other than that I *love* it! Performance is outstanding throughout the entire tuning range. Glad they brought it back!

@ Sean Kelly - I think you may be right about the LEDs possibly creating noise. I placed a LED desktop lamp next to it and turned it on. The MW (with the external rotatable ferrite rod antenna still active) was swamped. FM, SW and Air bands seemed unaffected. Oh well: “No Radio is Perfect”. (Speaking of the Air band: My external antenna is not optimized for it and the nearest airport is 30 miles from me. Still the pilots and tower come booming in on the approach frequency. Really impressive.). Now we need someone to make an under $500 hybrid SDR (with frequencies under VHF handled in a traditional fashion) complete with the “waterfall” display. Probably still a couple of years away from that.

Thanks for the report and have a great day.

@@hamrad88 Thanks Tom. I hope all is well where you are. Here downunder the governments have gone mad.

Thanks for your comments and have a great day.

I really like my 680. See my reviews.

The PL-880 is a disaster, I use external antennas and the SSB distortion is many times worse, why use the telescopic antenna when a good external antenna works so much better ? The PL-880 and S-8800 are a joke and shame on Tecsun for releasing these radios at such high prices, it's actually a disgrace they released the radios with this issue in the first place because they are not fit for purpose. I use the Bonito MA305 whip antenna mounted about 7 meters up in a tree, I use H155 coax and it's well grounded at the base of the tree, grounding this antenna is essential as with most antennas. The Antenna is just superb and works great with these radios, a radio is only as good as it's Antenna. In noisy areas in apartments etc a loop antenna such as the Bonito Megaloop FX might work better. Anyway, I sold my S-8800 and PL-880 and got the PL-680 and the difference is night and day, the 680 doesn't have the filtering on SSB that the 880 has but the 4 Khz filter on the 8800 and 880 didn't work anyway and they sounded so bad on SSB that the filters didn't matter much. One major difference with the 680 is that you can zero-beat it, Zero-beating for those who don't know works like this, you are listening to a SW broadcast station and there's a stronger interfering station close by, switch to USB or LSB whichever eliminates or reduces the interfering station or source, then use the BFO to make it sound natural, this works amazingly well on the 680 but not on the 8800 or 880 due to the poor SSB performance and bad audio, the sound is warbly and it will wreck your ears and head. The PL-680 is a joy to use, has a wonderfully quiet receiver, great audio, pure analogue design that hasn't been destroyed by dodgy DSP chip that has a bug. Get the pl-680 here www.anon-co.com/ 95 USD can't go wrong it's one of the best sounding best performing portable radios you will find today. A lot of the DSP radios have similar issues and harsh sounding audio, the XHDATA D808 is the same and some of the Grundigs, they probably all use the same DSP chip.

@@hamrad88 Yes the PL-680 is a vastly superior radio in every way compared to the PL-880 and S-8800, the Pure analogue design is the key difference, great sounding audio and a very quiet receiver, excellent performance too. Most DSP radios I've had or reviewed have issues either with harsh audio or distortion on SSB, the XHDATA being another, not as bad on SSB on the tecsuns but still not great and you can't zero-beat it either because the audio sounds crap.

@@o00scorpion00o Thanks for your inputs.

@@o00scorpion00o so if I was to start DXing and picking up a new radio, should I get the pl680 or the XHDATA 808? I’m on fence between these too after seeing a few reviews. To add up: I know a guy who’s selling a 880 purchased a month a go fo 90usd. So many choices!!! :/

I tried lsb too. Thanks

You are correct. Thanks for the suggestions.

I know. That was a bad sign that I could not find him on any band.

There used to be a cartoon: “ Klondike Kat “, He was always chasing a mouse who was always saying: “ Savoir-Faire ees everywhere “. “Brother Stair is everywhere “.(😁). 📻🙂

Thanks, I tried both with no luck. Will have to try at a different time of the day. Have a great day.

I tried that but nothing heard.