OKAY, I TAKE EVERYTHING BACK, THAT I SAID BAD ABOUT THE DEGEN 31 !!!

The blame of the wrong wiring, was on the stupid diagram, wrongly
showing the connections, on the EBAY site and other sites!

In fact, I had the wire the wrong way, with the battery pack handing
just under the square form antenna, and the long wire leading to the
radio.

As soon as I reversed the direction, with long wiring dropping from
the square shaped antenna, the battery pack sat side by side with my
degen 1102, so I won't be susceptible to the fragile wire connection,
as it won't be hanging.

Finally, there is no need to have the connector half inserted into the
ext. antenna jack, because I fully inserted it, the reception was
poor, but all that was needed, was to move the TUNING ADJUST on the
de31 aaa box, and the signal became ideal, strong, clear and quite a
bit better than using only the whip antenna!

Mystery solved....blame the poor diagram, showing on ebay, misleading
customers about proper assembly. !

Also, it was never explained that the extra part with 2 clips, is
intended for those people wishing to replace the square shaped
antenna, with a simple long wire form, which is almost the same as the
long wired originally shipped with the degen 1102 radio, so I don't
see the point of that part, as it's useless.

The batteries, as stated last also, seem to be hanging in there, fine,
after several hours too.

Are you sure that you're attaching things in the right order --- the
battery pack should have plenty of wire to be able to place on a table
and not be hanging from the antenna.


B) Not being patient with the tuning. You really have to tune it
slowly. First move it until you can hear the area of the dial where it
'clicks' and then move it much, much slower around that area to tune it
perfectly.