Thanks and you may be right and I'm going to continue researching this. I know that the radio can take an extra memory card which you can programme somehow, the extra memory is for world cities and associated broadcasting frequencies.
On 20/12/2011, at 7:24 AM, André van Deventer wrote: > You may perhaps even be able to control your radio via your computer. > > I have an older AOR AR3000a which I use in that way. Very nice to know > what you are doing and exactly on which frequency you are. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] > On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan > Sent: 19 December 2011 10:10 PM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Radio Notes > > 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 > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
