Jeff wrote in :

It is a perfectly adequate radio for what it was designed to be; a
portable that you take away on holiday to listen to BBC world service
on, but as for using it for anything more it is lacking.


Lacking what, specifically? I wanted a general purpose radio with full AM
coverage to 30 MHz, and I wanted it to be cheap and portable. Then I wanted
to give it a decent chance of getting signals when I'm not carrying it
around.

As for a radio that that is only fit for getting BBC World Service, are you
sure you're not confusing the ATS-909 with whatever Sangean's original was,
as cloned by Roberts with model R9921? That really IS a basic radio designed
for that purpose, the ATS-909 does more.

Even you admitted in an earlier post that it was overloaded by anything
more than a whip antenna!!


Not the point. It's easier to attenuate than to do almost anything else. Even
the radio itself can do that.

You would be far better off buying a dedicated HF receiver or a
transceiver with a far superior performance. They are available on Ebay
as well.


If you know of any that fit my description above, please name them.