I got around the extortionate price of buying a new one by becoming friendly with my local V2000 video rental company who would sell off recent model refurbs for less than 2/3rds new retail price (with new video heads if necessary and a full recalibration). They were a family run business who always offered you a tea or coffee when you went in and relied on word of mouth to keep them going, so they never sold you short. I really miss companies like that. I was lucky enough to own a nice 21" Philips CRT TV and was always amazed by the small difference in picture quality between a live broadcast and a recording made on a 1983 Philips V2324. All the VHS machines on sale at the time looked and sounded laughably bad by comparison. V2000 supported the use of chrome video tape from day one, so I'd always buy those as the performance was noticeably superior to standard ferric video tapes.

When i was 9 my tv mechanic father got hold of one of these cheap and 'taped' terrifying films for me (alien,the thing,american werewolf) such exciting times.

Beautiful radio. The DX 160 was my first communications receiver. Loved the radio and the appearance. Only problem was how it drifted as it warmed up. Thanks for bringing back some great memories.

Try 5900 on Friday at 2100Z. A transmitter at the former R Sofia site relays an hour of KSKO-FM from McGrath AK USA.

Hi I'm in North Wales too, in Flintshire and just got a v3, I'm learning slowly. I'm trying to make an antenna for Airband, have you got any suggestions please? Great video.

The Realistic DX-160 radio has a dissimilar metal problem on the tuning printed circuit board with the rivets that connect the top side printed circuit to the printed circuit on the bottom side of the PC board. Resoldering is not sufficient, the fix is to solder jumper wires on the top side of the board to replace the connection made by the printed circuit on the bottom side. Shining a bright light through the bottom of the board shows clearly where to solder the jumper wires on the top side. This is the RF amp and Local Oscillator circuit so it will require alignment. Operation without repair may be intermittent.

Hey I really want to get one of these VCC 2000 players for myself but with them being so expensive I want to get it restored when I do get one does anyone know where I can do that????

Man some of you here sure do cry alot must be the sad ham club I find plenty to listen to I'm in northern Florida area no Chinese here it's 2024 I get plenty of variety most in English. And some of you ask pl 880 or the pl 990x only live once I got the 990xfrom ebay I'm going to enjoy it that's what some of you should do. Turn the channel if you don't like it or learn Chinese if it's an issue. I'm going to enjoy my pl 990x!!!!

I bet the tecsun and xhdate an80 antenna are from the same factory xD

Why are you talking about shortwave and tuning in ham transmissions? Also I think you need a lesson on sideband tuning.

我这里的中国之声把大部分短波都覆盖掉了 我用 xhdata d808只听FM

7:55 - there was satellite and cable. Sky Channel launched in 1982 and Rediffusion had been running cable TV since the 1950s.

That BBC1 closedown is from 19th August 1988.

You should of gone 2 or 3 miles up the road to the turning to go up to pen y pass.Better signals up there

My first communications receiver!

Can I use V4 with android? It says it's possible, but I haven't seen any KZbin videos. Should I buy it to use with Android?

That looks kinda nice! I ordered one aswell, just gotta wait.

IDK I can think of better things than listening to static while sitting in a car, nothing personal but what is the end goal here?

I have this as well and there is some differences between the v3 and v4 as you stated. I dont have the time to show it in a video but you might be a good candidate to do just that. Even the setup is a bit different so you could put together some good content.

What antenna are you using? Is there not a lot of interference because it's a broadband antenna. What is your location?

Maybe a bit much gain there. Also if you want weak signals selecting a low bandwidth does help a lot! Kinda interesting that you are able drive it into overload it using that antenna! Have fun, a tiny portable reciver is totally worth to have!

Finally HF is available a little bit even if it's a bit spotty.

I have the RTL-SDR V4, with the antenna. Got it about 3 weeks ago. Are you on LSB ?

so cool *_PX7G6946_* 73 from Brasil.

Thanks (a bit later lol) loved to spot you on a map, I see you basically are not much far from Liverpool (on your north-east) - greetings from Italy. Sorry for ignorance, I assumed wire antenna was more helpful with long and medium waves.. or is it closer to its effective length (say 5 m wire is closer to the 10 m - 30 MHz rather than the lower side of the spectrum? What about the best moment of the day to try listening to radio? Thanks and greetings from Italy

Great video mate, do you know of any good high ground DX locations I could visit in north Wales, static mobile

Nice sdr 👍📉📈

Jump ahead 2 years. I would say it's in a very slow decline.

I miss having a backyard.

Shortwave is dead. Now only Spanish language from Central America and religious stuff. I listened in the 1970s and now there is 1/100 of what we had in the 70s.

Hi I am torn between the pl990x and pl880... if I'm not bothered about the Bluetooth, sd card for audio and the speaker( as I believe the audio on both are not that dissimilar) would you tell me to go for the pl880? I do like the look of the 880 but can afford the pl990x. Any advice would be appreciated thanks

You can hear the shortwave stations, but are they good enough to listen to and are they in English.

New firmware is available for this radio which is supposed to fix a lot of issues. The 101 is no longer in production, a new Gen II is in development, it would be nice if it was larder with a big speaker and more buttons and knobs.

This is an excellent review. The DX160 is the perfect size. The settings can be changed without knocking it over.

Hello number station e07

Hi great review please can I ask have you updated the firmware yet and would you still recommend. All the best

There you go lets make it 100 👍

Name the application please

Did you find updated firmware anywhere? I cant locate anything.

I bought the Belka DX and the DX name is no joke. Best radio I ever had including the Lowe 225.

TELL US MORE ABOUT YOUR ANTENNA CONNECTION, PLEASE.

The Radio/MP3 button this works as a Bluetooth speaker for your phone and even has an external mic for phone calls? I didn't know this and I'm now amazed and telling anyone who will listen! Great video, very relatable and looks like you had an awesome time. Relaxing vid!

have you got a link for purchasing?

But compared to the rtlsdr v3 dongle does this sdr that Your reviewing pick up vhf uhf and 800mhz trunking amongst other things because it’s a great dongle when paired with the right applications or software

This radio was the dream of many young SW listerners. They saved up to buy this model. I purchased a refeurbished one in excellent condtion recently. It performs very well. Im 66.

Absolutely horrendous machines to repair and service and notoriously unreliable too. Typical PHILIPS design, lots of plastic. Good idea that you can turn the tape over and good Dynamic tracking but other than that, picture quality not up to much and very, very unreliable machines.

Dear Mr. Christopher Cullin I just ordered mine DeepSDR 101. I read that the mw reception is bad. Can you, please, suggest a mw antenna for it. I already have a malachite v1.10C with extra antenna board and the mw reception is pretty good with a youloop antenna or miniwhip.

still have a working one

Listen to Radio New Zealand 15720 kHz.

I am very impressed. Edit: $96.00 US.