I made my own antenna tuner but it couldnt travel with me, so a built in
one in atravel radio has a genuine appeal. So, the antenna tuner DOES
intersts me like it did you, perhaps.. the price is gonna hafta go lower
for me to bite...a final cost of $80 for a radio that's not state of the
art and lacks SSB is to high IMO


(my standard of reference DX 398 & TenTec RX 320)


Yodar



Michael wrote:
Hiya :-)

My Tecsun PL-550 arrived yesterday. snip

I initially became interested in buying the radio to try out the built in
antenna tuner that it has. Thus far, I haven't spent enough time with it
under the conditions of two close signals with one being splashed by the
stronger signal. When I do turn the antenna tuner all the way up or down, I
can see that the signal strength meter on the PL-550's goes up and down in
as you would expect it to do. I have no idea of what the measured
difference is from how it works when it is set dead center vs. what it's
doing when you turn it all the way up or down from the center. I also have
no idea at this point if it is going to be effective. As of right now, I'm
still in the dark about selectivity and overloading. I haven't noticed any
glairing deficiencies yet, but I've only been using it for a few days.

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Aside from that, I really like this radio. It is sturdy, has great features,
so far has proven to be very sensitive as a sw radio, has wonderful audio
and it comes at a great price for $60.00 plus $20.00 shipping from China.