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
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