This article certainly leads to many questions, which, due to the newness of the radio, probably no one here can answer, but that doesn’t stop me from posting them. I have a Tecsun CR-1100 which has some quirks—some I love and some that I wish didn’t exist, and I’d love to know how the 8800 performs in these areas. Unlike many radios, the CR-1100 makes no attempt to filter out FM HD noise on adjacent channels. Although audible blocks of white noise don’t 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 I’d love it if it did. On the minus side, the 1100 has an annoying characteristic on FM:apparently as a battery conservation measure, if there’s 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 there’s a way to defeat it, I haven’t discovered it yet. I hope the 8800 doesn’t have this undesirable “feature.” I’d love to know what the battery life is when the output or headphone jack is patched into another source and the speaker is deactivated. Being blind, I can’t 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. I’m glad there’s no soft muting or audio dropouts while tuning. But I’d love to know how the 8800’s FM reception compares to the two Sonys most commonly used by FM DXers, as well as the 1100. This may have been answered by the article, but if so, I didn’t 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. I’m always looking for better FM than I have with the Sony XD-S3Hd and the Tecsun CR-1100.
-- Rick -----Original Message----- From: IRCA [mailto:irca-boun...@hard-core-dx.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Gibson Sent: Monday, October 09, 2017 11:11 AM To: Mailing List for the International Radio Club of America <irca@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: [IRCA] Tecsun S-8800 AM/LW/SW/FM Field Radio With Remote https://radiojayallen.com/tecsun-s-8800-amlwswfm-field-radio-with-remote/ Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com