I entered a “pre-order” for the Radtel RT-880X just now at Elecevolve. They also said “7-12 day delivery,” which would put it arriving November 17 – 22.
At first, I didn’t think I would buy one because I had a similar Sparkelec DP-666 already, but I reconsidered. The price end up $88.53 with tax and shipping. I already wrote a preliminary post, What? Upcoming RT-880X from Elecevolve, about the radio, which I won’t repeat here, but I want to explain the reason I bought it.
- I sort of like the earlier DP-666 but, but Sparkelec didn’t seem to provide much support and there was some confusion about firmware. Elecevolve, on the other hand, has been very aggressive updating the firmware for their other product, the MLite-880. In a sense, I’m getting a firmware upgrade to my DP-666.
- It has a ferrite rod antenna inside, allowing MW and presumably LW reception without plugging something in.
- A decent manual.
- Air band (not a big deal but nice)
- Elecevolve gave me a free radio (MLite-880) and I wanted to pay them back.
- ATS.
- I’m already familiar with basic operation.
- It has WiFi with NTP clock setting.
Maybe I’ll try to sell my DP-666 on eBay.
In the meantime, there is an article at The SWLING Post and a video: