I am wondering as far as short wave reception ONLY (dont care about AM/FM) is this unit better than a TECSUN PL660?
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The Sat 750 works as good as the antenna you put up indoors or outdoors. The Sat 750 is a porta top receiver that has more circuitry than the PL 660 and can handle bigger outdoor antennas than the small portable PL 660. I have owned it since last year and it's a great radio for DXing in my apartment, but a home made short wave active antenna project brought out the weak signal reception I was missing all these months. It's a great radio, but it does not a DRM AM IF output jack for digital radio short wave reception.
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I dont know about Tescun but my set works wonderfully to fullest satisfaction of my requirements.
1804507
The reception is going to be very similar. Some differences that you may notice is the CC Pocket has a sleep timer vs a fixed auto shut off. Also ours has AM/FM and WX, not sure if that is of importance to you, but we've had a lot of customers who like having a small radio that also has weather. There are also one touch presets vs having to scan through the memories. If you have any other questions, please let us know.
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I couldn't compare the two radios but try a long wire antenna off the Kaito. Also be aware that shortwave reception depends on the bands and what time of day it is. Higher bands are better for the daytime also the lower bands are better for the night. There are several good websites that list broadcast information for shortwave.
2014240
The PL 660 is a very good radio.. I have had mine around 2 years now and have had no problem with it. I am very perticular about reception on all the bands and this radio does an excellent job.. AM and FM reception is great... Shortwave and Side Band work very well and I also can pick up many airplanes both near and far.. It is more sensitive than my Bearcat Scanner SC 150 and I was suprised about that..It puts me to sleep every night and when I go somewhere I just unplug it and take it with me.. Battery life is fine with the rechargable batteries... Save your money and get a PL 660...It is all the radio you will ever need...
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The performance will be better than using the internal pull up whip antenna, because it is longer your going to pull in more channels on shortwave and bring in weaker signals better. It will be a definite improvement
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Sorry, I'm not sure. I like the radio especially for the price. But if you want to use it for 10 meters it's not the greatest seeing it doesn't do sideband.73'sSteve
68277
I concur with the previous answer. I too use only batteries which produce less interference when tuning in to shortwave.
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You can tune in to a limited number of stations on the shortwave "band" which I believe takes in a number of closely located frequencies. I don't think it covers the entire spectrum of what is known as shortwave, but I'm not an expert. I mainly like it as a travel clock-radio on AM & FM stations. My biggest complaint is that the analog tuning (digital display) drifts a bit once you have the station you want. There is a newer, nearly identical model that has digital tuning, that may be better. Hope this helps.
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Yes, with the plug in antenna the FM reception is good. However, AM is terrible.
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Yes, it is a shortwave radio. I get broadcast from Asia, Austrailia, and other languages I dont recognize.
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From my experience, tuning in shortwave mode is very very sensitive. A slight twitch and you're in/out of focus. I was only able to find a handful of stations. About 3 Spanish ones (either Spain or South America), 1 from Australia, and couple around US (mostly religious stations). I'm based in Colorado, US.
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I don't use AM, only FM and the reception is excellent. I use it on my desk at my house, that is on the 5th floor.
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that depends of course on the power of the radio station. Simply put, at this time: of all portable receivers that i have played with (and i have owned too many) this is the most sensitive for FM. For AM: It is not in the same league as the PL-310ET (the ferrite rod is too short). For SW: distance is not the issue, but time of day and sun activity -but it is quite good. In worst case, Amazon is very generous in understanding that this was returned because it did not meet your requirements
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The FM reception is good - long wire antenna. Not quite as good as the Tivoli but comparable. We have 2 of the Yamaha TSX-70 units and they work and sound great but we primarily use them for iPod/iPhone charging and playback.
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Yes it does, but as you know, Hams do not transmit on set and regularly spaced frequencies, so it is trickier to tune in a ham station than a regular broadcast station. The Tecsun PL-660 can only tune as fine as one kilohertz per step and the ham station will more than likely be on some fraction of a kilohertz - that is why there is a "-SSB BFO+" rotary control to tune to the fraction of a Kilohertz. As a side note - an expensive ham radio receiver will normally tune to .01 kilohertz and can usually be set to tune to .001 kilohertz.
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Try a 27Mz rubber ducky..These Antennas are closley matched to 162Mz.... Reserched.... (wheather channels) This is why the wheather comes in with more clarity..QUOTE}There cute little radios.But not Quite up to par for mobile use 4 watts! Not)Try 60MA! Good for 100 feet!
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as a 40 year shortwave listener to world band radio. having a table top that cost over $1,000 and several portable shortwave radios, you truly get what you pay for. the sony is rated top in it's class, and i agree with this. sounds good, work great if you want to put head phones and tune in fm. i have grundigs, but they were made in germanyand cost $500. get on the net and type in "best shortwave radio" and you will find the sony icf-sw7600gr at the top of most list. doc russ