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Re: [IRCA] Tecsun S-8800 AM/LW/SW/FM Field Radio With Remote
This article certainly leads to many questions, which, due to the newness of the radio, probably no one here can answer, but that doesnât stop me from posting them.
I have a Tecsun CR-1100 which has some quirksâsome I love and some that I wish didnât exist, and Iâd love to know how the 8800 performs in these areas.
ï Unlike many radios, the CR-1100 makes no attempt to filter out FM HD noise on adjacent channels. Although audible blocks of white noise donât sound too appealing on the surface, they allow me to know when I have nulled an HD signal as much as possible. I love this about the 1100; I doubt that the 8800 performs this way, but Iâd love it if it did.
ï On the minus side, the 1100 has an annoying characteristic on FM:apparently as a battery conservation measure, if thereâs a weak signal or white noise on a frequency, the unit shuts off after 5 minutes. I can think of many reasons why this feature is undesirable, and none that favor it. In fact, it does this with fully audible non-full-quieting signals, and if thereâs a way to defeat it, I havenât discovered it yet. I hope the 8800 doesnât have this undesirable âfeature.â
ï Iâd love to know what the battery life is when the output or headphone jack is patched into another source and the speaker is deactivated.
ï Being blind, I canât see any pictures associated with this article. Thus, I wonder if direct frequencies can be entered on the radio itself or just on the remote. Radio is preferred.
ï Iâm glad thereâs no soft muting or audio dropouts while tuning. But Iâd love to know how the 8800âs FM reception compares to the two Sonys most commonly used by FM DXers, as well as the 1100.
ï This may have been answered by the article, but if so, I didnât catch it. The Tecsun 1100 has memory scan on FM which can be triggered by pressing the tuning dial in. (Unfortunately, the memory scan times out after an hour.) I wonder if the 8800 has this memory scan, and if the annoying timeout exists on the 8800.
As you can see, FM is top priority for me. I have enough interference here that AM is generally something that I recall listening to, not something I enjoy much these days. However, good enough AM performance might get me more interested in going further afield where interference is less of a problem. But FM is the real ticket. Iâm always looking for better FM than I have with the Sony XD-S3Hd and the Tecsun CR-1100.
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Rick
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From: IRCA [mailto:irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dennis Gibson
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Subject: [IRCA] Tecsun S-8800 AM/LW/SW/FM Field Radio With Remote
https://radiojayallen.com/tecsun-s-8800-amlwswfm-field-radio-with-remote/
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