"DeWayne" wrote in message .. .
"byrnefm" wrote in message
om...
I got my Sangean upgraded to the Super-909 and I have to say, I did
notice an improvement to reception in the MW band and LW band, at any
rate (SW varies anyway, so it's harder to tell here). My best catch
with the Super 909 so far was VoA being transmitted on 1530kHz from
São Tomé (along the equator, near Gabon) - 4700+ miles from where I
live in Dublin - and this was just with the built-in antenna!

I got a very good price on the radio from thiecom.de, so the cost of
it plus the upgrade was only a little more than buying the standard
909 in the UK. I'm very pleased with the Super 909, at any rate!

Regards,
..Francis

Do you listen to any SSB?

DeWayne

SSB is a problem on this receiver because of the horrible AGC design
and the associated time constants. I attempted several times to
improve it but to little or no avail because of the fundamentally
flawed design. I have a Kaito 1102 and SSB is definitely superior even
on this little radio. They wasted too much time with "do-dads" on the
398 rather that optimizing the basic receiver functions. Sounded like
**** too!

Frank

De Wayne wrote:
Do you listen to any SSB?

I have done a bit of SSB listening (just last weekend for the first
time with it), around 3.7MHz and tuned in the caller successfully.
Also tried two other frequencies a little lower down (3.5-3.6MHz) with
success. Haven't tried it on the other bands yet (eg around 7MHz).

I have to say that one thing that is definitely an improvement over
the standard ATS-909 (in my opinion, anyway!) is the speaker - music
on FM sounded pretty poor if there was any amount of bass involved.
The RDS indicator could be a lot better, though - the signal has to be
very strong for the radio to decode the RDS signal. (I know RDS isn't
used that much in the US but in Europe it's more popular: for example,
18 out of the 21 stations that I pick up in Dublin use it and two of
the non-users are pirate stations).

Regards,
...Francis

On 17 Aug 2004 05:56:18 -0700, (byrnefm) wrote:

De Wayne wrote:
Do you listen to any SSB?

I have done a bit of SSB listening (just last weekend for the first
time with it), around 3.7MHz and tuned in the caller successfully.
Also tried two other frequencies a little lower down (3.5-3.6MHz) with
success. Haven't tried it on the other bands yet (eg around 7MHz).

I have to say that one thing that is definitely an improvement over
the standard ATS-909 (in my opinion, anyway!) is the speaker - music
on FM sounded pretty poor if there was any amount of bass involved.
The RDS indicator could be a lot better, though - the signal has to be
very strong for the radio to decode the RDS signal. (I know RDS isn't
used that much in the US but in Europe it's more popular: for example,
18 out of the 21 stations that I pick up in Dublin use it and two of
the non-users are pirate stations).

Regards,
..Francis

I've got a Super909. I love it. Incredible performer. Now it's like
the 2010 in ability but very modern with all the bells and whistles
you expect from the 909.