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Pros & Cons
Pros
The tecsun pl-380 is an excellent buy for a person that wants a medium quality shortwave radio. On shortwave the 5 bandwidths again prove themselves. Comes with a long wire antenna that helped me scan for channels. S/n ratio and gain are shown for tun... Read More
It seems petty to gripe about such a small unit which sports so much tech at such a good price. Not sure how much longer these will be manufactured so wanted to scoop one up. The dsp feature makes the radio ean even bigger bargain.
Radio uses regular or rechargeable aa cells, which can travel in checked luggage. You can power it via normal batteries or by the lithium batteries that came with the radio. This has advantages if you want to carry it around in a backpack but does cau... Read More
Numeric keypad is a terrific feature for such price. Bright orange will make your eyeballs bleed, but it works great.
Would definitely recommend this to any person wanting a good beginner sw/med/lw/fm radio. It's as dependable, and high quality that you expect from a tecsun radio.
Cons
This radio barely picks up a 50,000 watt blow torch station in hartford. Very poor sw reception with a 60 foot wire 45' high outside. My car radio has far better reception am and fm.
Sad to see so much potential squandered over the lack of one component. The only good thing about it is that it is rechargeable. The shortwave is worthless.
Not intended for u. Inoperative lw. Dont bother.
Highlights
Quality
Sensitive tuner good sounding seems well made
I’ve owned my pl680 for 6 years i put in 3 decent quality rechargeable aa cells at the time and 6 years later the radio is stil... Read More
Worse the buttons you need to press are very small
The rechargeable batteries last many hour’s on a charge
Price
Im glad i got this item at a great
For the price you cant beat this one
A little overpriced small radio but i am very satisfied
It’s a fine travel radio especially considering the price
Shipping
I can receive radio korea at 400 miles away
Only one draw back is there is no power supply or headphones provided with the radio but they are available from tecsun with free shipping
Packaging/appearance
Tecsun pl 380 is packed with features
Nice radio in a small package roughly the size of two smartphones stacked on top of each other
Competitiveness
This radio performs on a par with other tecsuns in other words great
This radio is similar to that experience and that is why i love it
I had a choice between this tecsum or a cheaper model which also had glorious reviews
However the tecsun pl360 has better speaker sound and am sensitivity although it is lacking numeric keys
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- This product had a total of 1,293 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 17 2024.
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So when i saw that this model ran on aa batteries with a charging circuit builtin for using and charging nickelmetal hydrate batteries i just had to try it
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Clear sound for such an otherwise unassuming gadget
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Not sure how they put so much into this radio
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Small enough to put in pocket
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Comes with headphones external sw antenna which clips onto telescoping antenna
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Even has a battery level display
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Will pull in the local stations hd signal and radio havana cuba on the sw band
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The rechargeable batteries last many hour’s on a charge
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