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attn DXers who have the Sangean PR-D5 or D15 units

cyberdad said:
I'll say this for the ATS-505, the audio quality on FM with a decent pair of headphones is very good. I use the ATS-505 to listen to streaming music from my computer (via a Whole House FM Transmitter). The resultant audio with headphones is clearer than my Kenwood stereo tuner/amplifier, SRF37 Walkman, or ipad/iphone. I hadn't expected this, and was pretty amazed. I'll also second what boombox said about the AM selectivity. Pulling out distant signals from strong local ones has been pretty easy.
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You're right, it does sound very good on headphones. SWBC sounds pretty good also.

I was also quite surprised at the MW performance when using an external loop. It's too bad Sangean didn't put the same loopstick in the ATS-505 that they put in their SG-700L analog AM-FM-SW-LW radios -- one millimeter or so extra thickness makes quite the difference.
 
gar fla said:
The PR-D5 has a 200mm ferrite bar.

Google '200mm ferrite antenna' and it's highlighted in the results.
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The PR-D5 also has a (non adjustable) twin coil 200 mm loopstick -- at least the newer ones do. Apparently the digital IF chip works with the loopstick to sort of peak itself -- at least that's how I've read it described.
 
crainbebo said:
rbrucecarter5, a light bulb just popped up in my brain.

If I get the ATS-505 modified with filters, will it cause overload in areas where strong stations are located? I'm worried about that. Currently my G5 is trash on several frequencies (most notably 93.5, 95.3, 102.3, 102.5, 103.3) due to overload from all of my local stations (I am 5 miles from KATS-94.5, a 100kw station, and about 7 miles from three more 100KW FMs.)
I don't want to be disappointed!

P.S. we are taking my G5 to a radio shop near Downtown Yakima tomorrow. That said radio's antenna is hooked up to a square-shaped O-ring, and a screw. The screw came out, causing the whip to stay in, but point downward almost toward the ground. Never screwed around with the whip, never bent the antenna accidentally, never sat on the antenna accidentally - it's only been 10 months. We'll see what the old guy can do. He's helped me old G5 before (just a few months before it died for good).

-crainbebo
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|I am 20 miles from the majority of Houston full class C stations - and don't have any overload problems after modifying with narrow ceramic filters.

I do have quite a stock of small metric screws after 40 years of tinkering. I probably have one that can fit that whip bracket. I can also re-thread if the bracket is stripped.
 
(sorry about the first part of my previous post, #20 -- I misread Crainbebo's post, thought he was referring to the Sangean whip antenna connection issues... Where he was referring to his G5. My bad.)
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
|I am 20 miles from the majority of Houston full class C stations - and don't have any overload problems after modifying with narrow ceramic filters.

I do have quite a stock of small metric screws after 40 years of tinkering. I probably have one that can fit that whip bracket. I can also re-thread if the bracket is stripped.
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Update on that loose antenna. My radio is afflicted with it, wiggle it a bit and all the 20 to 30 mile away LPFM's and translators come in strong. Even WACO 99.9, about 130 miles away. Forget to check that one - it is country and I am not interested. Wiggle again, connection is lost and they go out. I did check again for first adjacents next to strong stations. Not a lot here in Houston, because most stations have HD jammers turned on. I need to get inside and adjust spring tension on that mechanical connection.
 
My update - went to the radio shop yesterday and got the antenna repaired, but the guy told me because I tightened the screw up so many times (due to wobbliness), the plastic busted off near the screw. So he put a washer and a tighter connection on there. We'll see how it works this summer.
I still need to get my new voice recorder, and get the PL-380 returned so I can replace with the ATS-505, send to rbrucecarter5 and hopefully receive 150 khz filters around the first couple weeks of Es season.

-crainbebo
 
I hope you guys don't mind a little OT from the blind radio nerd here. :) In terms of the cc 2e vs the skywave, the skywave is not as good at separating stations on an adjacent channels next to a strong station. Where as the cc 2e heard wxof next to wdbo very well, the skywave took more coaxing to get it to come in.
 
The DX-402 is the earlier Radio Shack version of the ATS505.

I think the main difference between that one and the new one (the 200629 -- the one in the RS stores now) is the new one doesn't chuff when tuning the SW band (I read one review of the DX-402 where a ham user said it chuffed, and mine doesn't), and maybe the AF chip is different. Pretty minor differences.

Otherwise it's probably the same exact radio -- same RF circuits, same filters, etc.
 
rbrucecarter5:

Do you only have 150khz filters, or do you have any that are 110khz narrow? The narrower the filter, the better the DX and selectivity. Thanks!
 
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