J'adore ces deux radios, je possède depuis peu les PL-330 et PL-680. Après les avoir tous deux calibrés, je les trouve précis sur toutes les bandes de fréquences. Mon PL-330 à le firmware 3305 et mon PL-680 le firmware 6622. C'est sûr, si on les écoute sur haut-parleur le 680 sonne mieux, mais avec un casque, il n'y a plus vraiment de différences. Merci pour cette revue !!
Top of the St-Jean to you Gilles. Seeing a pop-up on my screen for this video that I don't have time to review reminds of something that is seldom done (if ever). With the rise of a new solar cycle and the interesting catches that come with it, It would be VERY INTERESTING to have a performance comparison of the various receivers ON THE HIGHER bands, and I'm talking 10-12 meters here. What do you think ???
I notice it buddy!!! The voice fades away while the "noise" moves forward. The PL 680 i notice the voice is there pretty much the whole time. The noise fades out instead. In my opinion, PL 680 wins on this part.
The PL-330 had a pumping effect of the signal like no AGC. The 680 handled it much better. Of all your PL-330 vs whatever, this is the 1st video that disappoints me with the PL-330. Is there a gain control for the PL-330?
Only one time, I was triggered (and I can´t get it again) a bug that fix 1 Khz bandwidt in AM, LW and SW in no SSB or sync mode too, minimun is 2´5 Khz bandwidt in no SSB and or SYNC mode=. At this point, the radio was not allow me change or choose other bandwidt. BUT: the chuffing sound, the "pops", some background noise and the "peaks" in the audio was all gone. It was like listening with a very-very good PLL synthetised radio from years ago. :-) Sadly I can´t found how to get this bug again.
Cool video! Appreciate your effort & time to give us this perspective & comparison. I just purchased a PL-330 largely based on your positive review of this model. I have a question re the tether attached to the radio for carrying. I do not need it since I will rarely use it. Is there a way to remove it from the radio other than simply cutting it off? THX in advance! D. King, Thunder Bay
I note the PL680 is tuned to 13562 and PL 330 on 13650, the correct freq.???. Not a fair comparison. My PL330 audio is excellent as I feed the audio to a Panasonic active speaker.
hey idk if you will see this but if you can i have questions for the realistic TRC 218 2 watt 3 channel walkie talkie, do i just pop the top off to get in and change the crystals, also my second crystal do you know where i can get crystals? thank you sm
I notice they are not on the same frequency. Unless the display is off? The dsp doesn't seem to hold the signal fade as well, but trade-off is size and weight, I assume. Nice comparison, thanks for the video!
any reason the PL-680 was tuned to 13652 not 13650? and I believe if you tune the PL-330 to 13652 you will stop the muting during deep fades so could you possibly do this comparison again?
Sensitivity wise both equal but PL 680 more pleasant to listen to less background noise and holds the signal better. Also has sync that works well
J'adore ces deux radios, je possède depuis peu les PL-330 et PL-680. Après les avoir tous deux calibrés, je les trouve précis sur toutes les bandes de fréquences. Mon PL-330 à le firmware 3305 et mon PL-680 le firmware 6622.
C'est sûr, si on les écoute sur haut-parleur le 680 sonne mieux, mais avec un casque, il n'y a plus vraiment de différences.
Merci pour cette revue !!
Como calibrar o 680 ?
Both are receiving the signal very well. My personal preference is the audio quality of PL-680 - just seems fuller/richer. Thanks for the video!
The 680 does seem to have a slight edge. Its speaker looks just the tiniest bit bigger.
Both receivers are fantastic in Shortwave, congratulations video, great comparison.
Merci Gilles, j'apprecie enormement!
Top of the St-Jean to you Gilles. Seeing a pop-up on my screen for this video that I don't have time to review reminds of something that is seldom done (if ever). With the rise of a new solar cycle and the interesting catches that come with it, It would be VERY INTERESTING to have a performance comparison of the various receivers ON THE HIGHER bands, and I'm talking 10-12 meters here. What do you think ???
I notice it buddy!!! The voice fades away while the "noise" moves forward.
The PL 680 i notice the voice is there pretty much the whole time. The noise fades out instead.
In my opinion, PL 680 wins on this part.
The PL-330 had a pumping effect of the signal like no AGC. The 680 handled it much better. Of all your PL-330 vs whatever, this is the 1st video that disappoints me with the PL-330. Is there a gain control for the PL-330?
No gain control or switch LOCAL-DX for the PL-330.
Only one time, I was triggered (and I can´t get it again) a bug that fix 1 Khz bandwidt in AM, LW and SW in no SSB or sync mode too, minimun is 2´5 Khz bandwidt in no SSB and or SYNC mode=.
At this point, the radio was not allow me change or choose other bandwidt. BUT: the chuffing sound, the "pops", some background noise and the "peaks" in the audio was all gone.
It was like listening with a very-very good PLL synthetised radio from years ago. :-)
Sadly I can´t found how to get this bug again.
Cool video! Appreciate your effort & time to give us this perspective & comparison.
I just purchased a PL-330 largely based on your positive review of this model.
I have a question re the tether attached to the radio for carrying. I do not need it since I will rarely use it. Is there a way to remove it from the radio other than simply cutting it off?
THX in advance! D. King, Thunder Bay
I note the PL680 is tuned to 13562 and PL 330 on 13650, the correct freq.???. Not a fair comparison. My PL330 audio is excellent as I feed the audio to a Panasonic active speaker.
it is fair.. the 680 I have is off by 2 kHz .. so it is tuned to the frequency
@@OfficialSWLchannel Tem como calibrar ?
Gilles tow Tecsun shortwave receivers are cool
Both radios function well, which one to purchase?
Question. Why did you not use the sync. On the 680 it would have been a lot better copy of the signal.
cause Sync on the 330 is bad... so to test they have to use the same mode
hey idk if you will see this but if you can i have questions
for the realistic TRC 218 2 watt 3 channel walkie talkie, do i just pop the top off to get in and change the crystals, also my second crystal do you know where i can get crystals? thank you sm
They are not tuned on exact frequency on 680 is 13652 and on the 330 it is 13650 maybe the difference
no, the 680 is off by 2 kHz, so at 13652 it is tuned on frequency
IS THE ML30+ LOOP APPROPRIATE FOR THE 990X?
MLA 30 works great with all radios, you will need to have an adapter cable for the antenna connector
@@OfficialSWLchannel thanks. Look forward to your videos.
Will it improve the reception signal if you extend the antenna out and move it around 🤔?
He is plugged into an external antenna, so no.
He should tell us that he's using an external antenna and what make/model.
No live stream tonight?
I notice they are not on the same frequency. Unless the display is off? The dsp doesn't seem to hold the signal fade as well, but trade-off is size and weight, I assume. Nice comparison, thanks for the video!
680 is off by 1.5 kHz
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Pl 680 has better audio and more intelligent reception.
Frequencies different?
the 680 is off by 1.5 kHz
any reason the PL-680 was tuned to 13652 not 13650? and I believe if you tune the PL-330 to 13652 you will stop the muting during deep fades so could you possibly do this comparison again?
it is off frequency