Superior Receiver In a Small package. This is a mighty receiver and a very small easily portable unit. Reception in the AM band is very good for picking out stations in the thousand mile radius. The internal antenna works very well and in conjunction with a loop antenna. I have learned how to position the receiver to accentuate distant signals. The short wave bands are very adequate for a unit of this size. I have a little RF interference because of the proximity of cell towers at home however, I feel this is a great receiver for home or travel because it’s in such a small package. I highly recommend this. FM sound quality is very good however, this is not something you would obviously buy for fooling around with local channels on frequency modulation. Very happy so far after three months. By the way, I also have a powered long wave antenna for attempting DX signals from everywhere. The short wave reception is very good for a radio of this size without going full tilt with a long wire antenna.

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Immediate note: My 880 purchased in July 2024 has a USB-C charging port. Not sure if that's in the description, but many old models were miniUSB. Pleasantly surprised. It's not high speed charging, but at least it can charge with any cable I have laying around.So far I'm really loving it! I haven't had a radio around the house for maybe ten years. Decided I wanted one that was a good radio first and foremost. Second, one that's shortwave capable just to try out shortwave listening.I'm in the suburban San Francisco Bay area living in a third floor, north facing apartment.Straight away, the speaker is excellent. I can easily pick up every FM radio station I know of in the bay area. And the sound is crystal clear. I've enjoyed just plopping it down in my home office to listen while I work and the speaker is very enjoyable and clear if you don't fully blast it. AM reception is also excellent, with adjustable bandwidth.For shortwave, wow! This is my first SW radio, but I've really enjoyed sitting on my balcony tuning around. In the evening I can easily pick up Radio New Zealand International on 17675 kHz! I've also caught broadcasts from China, Japan, Miami, Maine, and others.On my second night I also picked out and tuned in a ham transmission and dialed it in on upper sideband mode. Loud and clear, coming from West Calgary!The included wire antenna I find helps me detect faint signals but also all noise. Not unexpected. Usually I have the best luck finding a broadcast with the wire then switching to the whip/telescoping antenna and moving to get the best signal with minimum noise.The rechargeable 18650 Li-ion is also awesome. Can easily replace with standard cells if needed, but also a long life rechargeable. Buttons and knobs are all very well thought out and intuitive. Even has a line out jack if you wanna use a stereo or record. The hidden features (do a Google search) only add extra value.Overall, I love it! Money well spent! Very impressive handheld radio, great quality, excellent results.

I think I have bought this radio by mistake - I'm not sure if it is configured for UK - it does not pick up any AM stations - FM is fine - SW is not good.

Like that it came with high capacity Li-ion rechargeable battery and 20 ft wire antenna. Radio reception noise is reduced when used away from switching type power supplies. Signal reception is greatly improved using an outdoor wire antenna. FM stereo audio is very good using earphones or connected to an external amplifier through the line out jack. Amateur radio shortwave sideband signal reception is very good, using fine tuning and adjustable bandwidth filter settings.

Excelente desempeño en onda corta y banda lateral, único con sintonía fina de dos dígitos. Cumple lo que promete. Lo mejor de todo es poder cambiar la frecuencia sin que se vaya el audio o los molestos “chuff” o sonidos de cambio de frecuencia. Podrían mejorar el rendimiento de la batería que aunque es recargable el consumo es alto. En general muy buen equipo para dxers.

Good as expected.

I wish the Tecsun PL-880 had RDS FM and HD-FM, instead of LW. There's nothing on Long Wave anyway, so why include it? LW is used for shoreline directional beacons. So what if HD-FM (which stands for High Density, not High-Definition) becomes the "AM Stereo of the 21st century"? I still feel it should be included in a radio at this price.There is no way to name presets, important when there are over three thousand of them.This radio has a few bandwidth selections for SW and SSB, but there should be more preset selections or ideally, the bandwidths for SW/SSB should be continuously adjustable and capable of storage in station presets memory.The removable Li-Ion battery lasts many hours, days really. The radio is charged via a mini USB instead of a typical wall adapter and connector, which would have been better given the fragility typical of mini USB connectors. Still, the battery does last a long time so it doesn't have to charge frequently. Also, note that USB chargers seem to produce obvious audible RF noise if operating this radio while charging.I couldn't get good reception indoors, so I had to string a Realistic Shortwave Antenna kit outside and solder a mini-phone connector for the radio's RF input. This came as a surprise, as I am in the country and didn't expect all the AC noise. If you live in an urban area the radio's apparent high sensitivity to AC noise junk may be disappointing. With the right antenna input (built-in, portable, or outside) and the RF switch set right, the reception is good, and the right combination of fine tuning and bandwidth selection reduces SW station fading on most signals.There are some red icons on the radio's front panel buttons which are not mentioned in the manual. Perhaps someone can comment here on how to access these. The Scan function doesn't seem explained properly so here it is; if the tuning knob was last set forward the radio will scan up, and if the knob was last moved to a lower frequency the radio will scan down (when Scan is pressed and held in both cases). If you quickly tap the Scan button, perhaps accidentally, it takes you to the Presets area thus losing whatever station you were just on, which is annoying.Its too bad worldwide SW is not what it once was (so it seems). The Internet is now the big thing. I couldn't find many popular stations, they just weren't there. Maybe a propagation thing. This radio will receive ham stations but the radio sometimes distorts in SSB on audio peaks. I am not sure if it is the radio itself or the ham operator but it is frequent.As a last note, the clock on my radio didn't keep accurate time. Most of the popular SW stations I couldn't receive, just too much buzzing and noise in the background. I don't think it's the radio, maybe it's antenna orientation. The Scan function frequently didn't produce many listenable results. Overall listening experience not as expected. Probably not radio fault, but AC harmonic RF noise and propagation problems plaguing reception as well as an overall decline in listenable stations worldwide.Of course this is just opinion.---------------------Just wanted to add something to this review. After a year the radio's working fine. Reception is great but there's only one problem. With the exception of ham, there's fewer and fewer broadcast stations to listen to.If broadcasts are what you seek, such as those in a foreign language, shortwave is a dead end.The new frontier is Internet Radio. There are currently over 15,000 stations available from almost every country/state, genre, call sign, etc. You can receive IR on a computer or a separate table top receiver. A note on stand-alone internet radio's; these hardware boxes are not all the same. They rely on existing website radio databases like Reciva.com or Pandora. These services carry many radio stations but not all.I recently acquired a C Crane and as a typical WiFi radio, and compared to shortwave, I wish I had never bought a shortwave radio. Oh sure, the hams are ok to listen to, but like many others I was interested in SW for news and alternatives to typical FM/AM fare.