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It's too bad...that radio served me well for nearly 4 years. HOWEVER...I am not going to chuck it into recycling yet. I will take it in for repairs, get a TEF6686 on the next paycheck, and use the 909X as a backup/recording radio.

Batteries Plus can't fix it.

Off to Spokane tomorrow for a comedy show, but I'm OK without the radio - I'll be too busy with entertainment anyway. For the summer road trip to Montana that I have been planning, I will have long had the TEF6686 by then - and probably a repaired 909X.
 
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From north suburban Chicago: Awoke at 2AM today… so I turn on the radio and poked around. Landed on some good music on 1190, then heard the tagline “Saskatchewan’s Best Music”. According to Radio-Locator.com, this station must be CFSL in Weyburn. My first logging from that province. This is a surprising catch because R-L says they run only 5 kW at night, and the antenna pattern is pointed away from the U.S. I’ll try listening again tonight not just for the DX fun, but also because I liked what they were playing!
 
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Getting a TEF6686 this spring! Are you able to install your own whip, or does the stock whip work just fine? I hear the radio is a magical powerhouse on FM and with the PI/PS/PTY that would be a massive help during major Es openings.
My ATS-909X is not working right now. Battery compartment is loose and won't take a connection. So I need to take it in for a repair this winter. No AM DX locally until that happens.
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What happened to your ATS-505? They're great for MW DX, if you add a loop. I thought you also used that for FM DXing.

Sorry to read that your 909X isn't working right. It might be a simple fix for a tech. My DX-398 developed an intermittent because the solder joint on the negative side of the battery terminal needed to be resoldered.
 
The Radio Shack DX398? It's in recycling heaven now, if I recall.
I should be able to get my TEF6686 on the next paycheck, so maybe the first 2-3 days of April?

Got back from Spokane two hours ago. Only thing to report was meteor scatter out on the open highway - heard KAIG-89.9 Dodge City KS (Air 1) with a worship song // KTSL 101.9, over a weak KPLW Wenatchee east of Ritzville, Sun. afternoon around 2pm. Spokane has a lot of frequencies being used and plenty of HD hash. 95.1-96.3 is a DXer's nightmare. Two locals, a translator, and four channels of HD hash...for example. Albeit I do like KPND's music!
 
crainbebo said:
The Radio Shack DX398? It's in recycling heaven now, if I recall.
I should be able to get my TEF6686 on the next paycheck, so maybe the first 2-3 days of April?
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No. Your ATS-505. I think it was a DX-405 or something like that. You mailed it to that Earmark guy in Texas (who used to hang out here on RD a while back) for a narrower FM filter, and you DXed the FM with it.
 
Oh...that would be the DX-402, Radio Shack, not a 398. That's the one that I believe is in recycling heaven now. The 398 was the Radio Shack Sangean 909...
 
ew catch this morning on 1240. 1240 "owes me". I've been hanging out there off and on for weeks and hearing lots of stuff, but nothing new. Until between 5:30 and 6am CDT (hour before sunrise), WHBU from Anderson, IN. Rising from the slop every few minutes, but I finally got a positive ID. 700,watts from about 200 miles southeast of me, northeast of Indianapolis. Radio was the C Crane Skywave, Barefoot.
 
Kenosha, WI- At 3:45 PM, broad daylight, in my car (2015 Ford Fusion with a very good radio), I was listening to WOKY 920. As I pulled up curbside waiting for my daughter to get out of school I found myself in an almost complete null of WOKY. Heard something very weak underneath it and thought, "I'll bet this is WBAA." Well, it WAS WBAA, West Lafayette, IN, 5,000 watts ND @ about 160 miles, with NPR programming and 3 positive IDs.

BTW, there was no evidence of any special conditions on the rest of the band.
 
Kenosha WI always reminds me of the Weezer video for the song "Buddy Holly". I don't think I had ever heard of Kenosha before that video. And yes, I know Weezer isn't actually from Kenosha, I'm sure it's a fine town anyway.
 
This morning my local 720 KSAH is just running an open carrier. Underneath it to the NW, I’m hearing XEJCC “La Zeta” in Ciudad Juárez, which normally wouldn’t be possible.

Normally KSAH has a small but good N-NE/S-SW null. Earlier in that direction, WGN and XEDE in Saltillo were booming in stronger than usual. Aiming more NE, I briefly heard a weak XEJAGC, another one that KSAH normally covers.
 
KenoGuy said:
Kenosha, WI- At 3:45 PM, broad daylight, in my car (2015 Ford Fusion with a very good radio), I was listening to WOKY 920. As I pulled up curbside waiting for my daughter to get out of school I found myself in an almost complete null of WOKY. Heard something very weak underneath it and thought, "I'll bet this is WBAA." Well, it WAS WBAA, West Lafayette, IN, 5,000 watts ND @ about 160 miles, with NPR programming and 3 positive IDs.

BTW, there was no evidence of any special conditions on the rest of the band.
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Proof that radio is magic. Sometimes a building blocks a local or power lines amplify a signal, either all the band or just part. There's a ridge near me that attenuates the power of downtown Chicago FMs and helps open up frequencies cluttered with IBOC. At least it did one day. I should go back there again.
 
tvnut said:
Proof that radio is magic. Sometimes a building blocks a local or power lines amplify a signal, either all the band or just part. There's a ridge near me that attenuates the power of downtown Chicago FMs and helps open up frequencies cluttered with IBOC. At least it did one day. I should go back there again.
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The Smoky Mountains can be magic with stations coming in and out, and frequencies opening up. Downtown Knoxville, not so much.
 
crainbebo said:
Oh...that would be the DX-402, Radio Shack, not a 398. That's the one that I believe is in recycling heaven now. The 398 was the Radio Shack Sangean 909...
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What happened with that one, the DX-402? ATS-505's are generally fairly tough radios. You seemed to get a lot of FM DX from it, if I recall.
 
The 402 got recycled as I recall. All I have is a car radio now, while I decide how to repair the 909X and I wait on the next paycheck for the TEF6686. Money is very tight at the moment.
 
tvnut said:
Proof that radio is magic. Sometimes a building blocks a local or power lines amplify a signal, either all the band or just part. There's a ridge near me that attenuates the power of downtown Chicago FMs and helps open up frequencies cluttered with IBOC. At least it did one day. I should go back there again.
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Reminds me of my short foray into FM "DX". There was a hill maybe 10 miles from me, in Issaquah, that blocked off the local FM signals coming off of Cougar Mtn., or at least weakened them, to the extent that -- just with my Sanyo Boombox in my car -- I could hear CBC-FM and CBUF-FM coming down from Vancouver, BC, because of the terrain shadow. Being that the hill was to the south of me, and Lake Sammamish was to the north, it was fairly open skies to the north.

Alki was another such location, although CBUF didn't come in, but some of the other Vancouver and Victoria stations came in well -- even in stereo.... on a boombox.

I haven't tried any such excursions recently. The neighborhood in question was a new one, in the late 80s. I'm sure that now it's probably a no-go area. I.e., you park somewhere they'll call the cops. It's probably not much of a DX haunt, anyway.
 


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