<div dir="ltr">Close, I bought a <span style="font-size:12.8px">GP5-SSB for travel. For the price it is amazing. It beats several 90's era PLL tuned shortwave radios that I had. The UI is a bit odd. It is nice to just sit and listen to one band, or use it's search feature to fill the temporary memory with stations that are close enough to listen to. I have yet to try it on aircraft bands so I can't comment there. </span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">-Tad</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Terry Fox <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tfox@knology.net" target="_blank">tfox@knology.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Has anyone used the newer Tecsun portable receivers, as found on ebay for $50-150? I see that some of them tune LF, down to 100kHz. The near-top-of-line PL680 covers LF, MW, SW, FW, and aircraft bands for about $100, but there are many more models below it, and a PL880 that is higher in cost, but no aircraft. Are there any other inexpensive (under $150 or so) portable receivers that we should look at?<br>
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They also have some MW loop antennas that won't quite tune to LF (as they come..).<br>
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I'm thinking of a portable radio for LF (2200 and 630 meters), HF ham bands, and possibly aircraft as well. I wonder how sensitive these Tecsuns are.<br>
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My next door neighbor has a Realistic DX-390 that wasn't working. After I reset the CPU (all power removal) it started up fine. I could hear a nearby NDB (CH) pretty good with it, at least comparable to my active antenna and other radios. Pretty impressive. I ended up finding one of them on ebay...<br>
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73, Terry, N4TLF<br>
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