Anyone play with Tecsun portable receivers and antennas?

[Tad]

Close, I bought a 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.

-Tad

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Terry Fox <tfox at knology.net> wrote:

> 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?
>
> They also have some MW loop antennas that won't quite tune to LF (as they
> come..).
>
> 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.
>
> 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...
>
> 73, Terry, N4TLF
>
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