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In Reply to: RE: Disappointed with Sangean 909 posted by kh6idf on November 18, 2015 at 17:00:12
Thanks for your post. Stuff in the house makes a ton of noise these days. Plasma TVs are the worst I've heard.
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Yup, I can pick up the plasma from the AM radio in the garage. The plasma is very directional in its radiation pattern.Not to compare with the Sony 2010, but maybe the much cheaper 7600 would work for you. It's got some pretty good features, works fine for me but I don't try to do anything fancy with it. I have some older Sangeans too. Their front end is very sensitive and can be subject to the same probs as in the 2010.
I've been looking for a new/small portable lately too. A couple of the C Cranes seem OK (for me), I was thinking of the Skywave, mainly I just wanted decent AM (preferably a la the original GE Superadio, but not to be). Hard to get a decent AM-only radio without having to buy a ton of extra features these days.
Edit: I don't know what you're actually trying to do, so my suggestions are probably stupid. When other devices emit RF interference, pretty hard for an AM radio receiver to not pick them up. Even my really good radios with decent outdoor antennas will.
Edits: 11/20/15
No, a good post. We are cut from the same cloth. Radio Shack made a decent AM only called the TRF tuned RF stage #12-655. If you see one on EBay cheap go for it. I love my D7000Y its just too big and heavy. A digital w/true LSB/USB that is smaller was my goal. I just wasn't happy with the 909.
ET
Sorry to read of your disappointment with Sangean's 909, Awe-d-o-file. Have a Ratio Shaq DX-398 variant from '98 which is still going strong. Has long-since outlasted an original generation Sony 7600G (replaced stock 398 speaker with 7600G's, though). But it too has a hard time with all that nowadaze medium-n-short wave digital interference which permeates Sactown. FM reception, however, has always been exemplary. Since 909/398s came from the same factory as N.A.D. & Proton, it probably employed a similar f.m. section. Minus Larry Schotz' noise reduction system. BTW, just like the 909, Sangean's 803-A (DX-440) also benefited from exterior antennas. As well as having its' rf gain control dimed. Sangean's 909 was proclaimed to be the last receiver one would ever need in their full page ads. How ironic it proved to be true. Not because the 909 couldn't be improved upon, but because several years later international broadcasters abandoned short wave for internet. 909s still have fine reception of ham-n-utility stations. Of which those broadcaster-empty station-storage pages could easily be filled with. You'd probably be better served, Awe-d-o-file, by Grundig's Yacht Boy 400 (also badged YB400PE-n-G4000A). Similar over-all stellar performance with simpler operation. Does a slightly better job fighting digital hash, too. 73s-n-Happy Holidaze para Sactown
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