{"id":14955,"date":"2015-09-29T08:56:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T12:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=14955"},"modified":"2015-09-29T08:56:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T12:56:46","slug":"the-sangean-ats-909x-martys-bedside-radio-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-sangean-ats-909x-martys-bedside-radio-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sangean ATS-909X: Marty&#8217;s bedside radio review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sangean-ATS-909X-Marty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14957\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sangean-ATS-909X-Marty.jpg\" alt=\"Sangean-ATS-909X-Marty\" width=\"650\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sangean-ATS-909X-Marty.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Sangean-ATS-909X-Marty-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Marty (W5MRM), comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I recently picked up a Sangean ATS-909X to use as a bedside radio.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/jeffs-bedside-radio-search-ends-with-the-sangean-cl-100\/\" target=\"_blank\">This blog post<\/a> inspired me to put together a video review of the ATS-909X as a bedside radio. The video review can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zLSvT6Z3su4\" target=\"_blank\">on my youtube page<\/a>\u00a0[or via the embedded player below]:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zLSvT6Z3su4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Great video, Marty, and thanks for the thorough review!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCoBoiK2dSs0RUJIm6QXlQ7w\" target=\"_blank\">You can follow all of Marty&#8217;s videos on YouTube by visiting this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWLing Post reader, Marty (W5MRM), comments: I recently picked up a Sangean ATS-909X to use as a bedside radio. This blog post inspired me to put together a video review of the ATS-909X as a bedside radio. The video review can be found on my youtube page\u00a0[or via the embedded player below]: Great video, Marty, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,433,3,26,129,154],"tags":[601,4257,600,2003],"class_list":["post-14955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-radios","category-reviews","category-shortwave-radio-reviews","tag-ats-909x","tag-marty-w5mrm","tag-sangean","tag-sangean-ats-909x-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3Td","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6785,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/lutus-review-of-the-sangean-atx-909x\/","url_meta":{"origin":14955,"position":0},"title":"Lutus&#8217; review of the Sangean ATS-909X","author":"Thomas","date":"June 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to Benn (AK4AV) for forwarding Paul Lutus' in-depth review of the Sangean ATX-909X. 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