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Even back in the "Hay-day" of World Band radio, I always needed to add a long length of wire (50-75 feet!) to hear much of anything. But then, living on the west coast of North America, the signals were always very weak to begin with. My PL-330 does great with any reasonable length, out door antenna. Great for listening to the "Ham Bands". Day or night 🌙.

Amazing reception with a 30 ft wind up wire antenna plugged into the antenna jack. Was receiving pirate radio stations on 6935 usb earlier tonight around 6pm.

I recently purchased the Tecsun PL- 330 & am impressed beyond all imagination. I also have 2 Sangean ATS 909Xs, a Tecsun PL-660, 880 & as of last week got a Tecsun PL-310ET (I felt I could have 1 radio without SSB). For the little bit of money spent on the 330 & 310ET am very pleased.

I've had the PL-330 for a month and it comes with the 3306 firmware, not the 3305. Mine was purchased from a China based XHDATA online store and it's identical to Tom's version, except that the sticker that reads "High Sensitivity", "Memories", "Detection" and "Lithium battery" are in Chinese characters. Some of the text on the back of my radio are also in Chinese instead of English. The supplied owner's manual is oddly in English language. I don't think there are any differences in features or performance between the China market and the export version. They're both the same radio. Anyway, I think what makes the PL-330 extra special is its ETM+ band scanning and I use it more than the ATS tuning method. The ETM+ corresponds with the hour of the day when the band scan is invoked and its memory slots are separate from the ATS memory channels. It's useful for browsing through broadcast frequencies on specific times of the day. For example if I wake up at 4 a.m. and want to listen to stations that are active at 4 a.m., I'll just press the ETM button to switch to the ETM mode. The radio will present me only the frequencies that it has memorized at 0400 hours since the previous ETM scan performed during the same hour. The ATS tuning method on the other hand, doesn't take into account of the time of day it finds active frequencies. It merely records the frequencies it finds and stores them, irrespective of the time of day the ATS band scan was done. ETM+ also has its share of shortcomings. ETM+ will sometimes mistake RFI background noise for legitimate stations and mostly selects strong to medium strength signals. It's also meant for broadcast stations and will not scan ham or utility bands and stops scanning at 26100 kHz.

Just purchased this radio off you site, adding to my collection.

Hello Tom. For the money I don't believe there is a better radio built today for under 100 dollars. Just a very good radio. My only issue is with the sync Function. Which is poor. Take r

Pretty impressive for such a small radio. The level of sophistication is really something. The only thing stopping me from getting it, is the small battery. Waiting for your battery test. 📻🙂

Neat little radio, Tom!

Two of the stations you mentioned as Spanish, 7420 and 9730 are actually Romanian. This is amazing taking into account he distance.

Thank you. Ordered one today, was going to get Tecsun 2000, but changed my mind. It see seems the 2000 has too many problems. I wasn't going to risk it.

Great receiver for the money, it’s a tough call between this and the Xhdata which is the best at the price point.

Tecsun really have some nice products. The battery should last a while, although I have had some BL-5C get "puffy" ie: swell up and refuse to hold a charge with in a short time (less than a year) Good show Tom, thanks for keeping it real

I was the one that hit the 73 thumbs up - lol🙂

One thing that I like this Tecsun radio is the ETM feature. But I'm still tempted to get the XHDATA D808. 😅 Could you help me, which one is better to choose? ☺️

Can we put a longer antenna that antenna is to short

Nice review and tests!! Thanks! Could it scan all the ham chatter stations at, let’s say, from 7.000 mhz up?

Can I change the antenna with longer version if where I find one

I bought it and still don`t know how to tune SSB properly. I have the PL-660.

1500mAh batteries and greater are available.