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Joanna Lumley and her husband Stephen Barlow invite you into their home for a fascinating, funny journey into their shared love of music. What I have found after owning and comparing many samples of this radio is that the basic performance is quite good, the only exception being the tuning oddities which do still seem to vary sample to sample. Nevertheless the SAT ‘750/S-2000 competes fairly well with contemporary portables and its fun factor is high…I love the looks and feel of the radio. I still wish Tecsun would refine the IF design to make it more typical but all in all the radio will bring you all the SW you can hear with any other modern portable with its whip antenna and it is unusually well suited for use with external antennas. You probably know Joanna Lumley, but you may not be aware that her husband Stephen Barlow is a famed conductor, composer and musician - and the pair of them are passionate about classical music. On this, their new podcast, the pair welcome you into their home for a personal, fascinating and funny journey through a musical world. Digititus on AM: Many modern DSP radios reveal spurious tones and noises on the AM band. Early samples of the SAT750/S-2000 revealed some of this digititus although it was generally not very bothersome…I’m happy to say that my latest sample showed none of this problem. Good!
As the owner of MANY short wave radios I can state this: “I’m glad I bought it”. And it caused me to clean off my dresser and set up a little DX display with a couple of laptops that are SDR devices. The radio is a little smaller than I thought however that matters not to me. Just from pics I imagined something larger. I assure you that is just me. The ‘750/S-2000 seems well-designed to make the best use of external antennas. I mentioned its unusually flexible antenna facilities and I I also found that is performed very well with external antennas on both AM and SW. Note that this radio allows the use of external AM antennas which many multiband portables do not although some more recent Tecsuns and the top Sangeans do. I used a Wellbrook ALA-330S, a random wire and several AM loops. It almost seemed like a different radio…it was very sensitive compared with other good radios on the same antennas. The three-step attenuator and variable RF gain control were useful in controlling strong signals from these external antennas, especially at night.TECSUN S-2000 is an AM Dual Conversion radio receiver for listening to FM, Longwave (LW), AM / Medium Wave (MW), Shortwave (SW) and VHF Air Band, and it is Single Sideband (SSB) capable. The Tecsun S2000 Desktop receiver with HF and VHF Airband, FM, Stereo/LW/MW/SW/Airband + SSB (Single Side Band) PLL Synthesized desktop receiver, Enjoy your shortwave / longwave/mediumwave and even VHF airband listening with this quality receiver. The Tecsun S2000 has just arrived with us and we are sure it will be a very popular choice with shortwave listeners, especially at this price. A host of other user-friendly controls include a handy signal attenuator, squelch, RF Gain, large VFO tuning knob, an S-Meter, and other nice touches like 2x BNC outputs for use with external antennas, a stereo line output, and wide & narrow filters fitted.
It is a very likable radio, that’s for sure. One of the first things I like to do with a new radio is see if I can figure it out WITHOUT the manual. Some radios are crazy with some settings. “ Point the radio to the east at sunset and push the 9 button 16 times to activate slow tuning”. Yeah, okay, I made that up but all of you reading this know exactly what I’m talking about regarding intuitiveness. Like the 660, the S2000 uses a BFO – best frequency oscillator – to fine tune SSB. In addition the S2000 has an Antenna Attenuator, RF adjustment and squelch as well as volume and tone controls to help you squeeze the best listening from your receiver. Even though the radio came from Hong Kong it showed in just 3 or 4 days. Also I’m told by the masses in the Ham community that if something goes wrong that anon-co is awesome at fixing problems. All good news. With the occasional special guest, join the pair as they discover what it really takes to stay relevant in the public eye today. The receiver has full coverage of HF from 1.7 - 30 MHz in AM/LSB/USB, Long wave band from 100 - 519 KHz, Medium wave band from 520 - 1710 KHz, FM band 88 - 108 MHz (stereo with headphones), and of course the VHF Civil Airband from 118 - 137 MHz in AM.
Auto Sorting Memory: Sorts all stored stations according to frequency and removes duplicate station frequencies.
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