Hi! I purchased a Sangean ATS909X "World Band" receiver quite some time ago and I'm now only putting the set through its paces.
I could write pages and pages about this unit and I'll do that on my blog in the future I'm sure but I do feel that this set deserves praise for its SSB reception. Tuning round the 8-9MHZ frequency range this morning I was able to listen to the "Flying Doctors" service, the reception wasn't brilliant but I was able to identify the organisation and "Julia Creek", that's a town in Central Australia. Now I've never received this before and - whilst Its obviously possible to receive the service as I proved - I always thought you'd need a bigger aerial than I was using, I just used the built-in telescopic whip of the radio which is around 6 feet long. Perhaps what makes things different these days is the absence of a lot of traffic from the SW bands. For those interested in this radio I recommend it as it is one of the few these days to offer both dual conversion circuitry and a variable RF-gain control across all frequencies from 100-29999KHZ. The set also comes equipped with a very nice "DSP" which brings the radio alive! when listening to medium-wave broadcasts where a strong signal is next to a waker one, the DSP allows the weaker signal to be heard intelligibly. For those who have a computer then you can add extra facilities to the radio by use of the data sockets on the bottom, what these extra facilities actually are I'm not sure but I suspect you can hook the radio up to your computer to use software which will decode morse, teletype and DRM broadcasts. Just a few first thoughts for what they're worth <smile>. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
