{"id":42107,"date":"2020-02-25T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=42107"},"modified":"2020-02-21T12:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T16:42:18","slug":"jesses-dx-390-ats-818-modifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/jesses-dx-390-ats-818-modifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse&#8217;s DX-390\/ATS-818 modifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ats818cs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42111\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ats818cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ats818cs.jpg 477w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ats818cs-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Jesse (W9JES) who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve been busy enhancing my Radio Shack DX-390. I added an IF-Out jack for my SDR, changed out the light for a LED, added a latch circuit for the light switch, added static protection, and disabled auto-mute. My blog with full instructions is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w9jes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.w9jes.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you, Jesse!\u00a0 Here are links to the various modifications Jesse has documented:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w9jes.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/collection-of-radio-modifications-for.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Part 1 Disable Mute<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w9jes.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/a-collection-of-mods-for-radio-shack-dx.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Part 2 Lights<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/w9jes.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/radio-shack-dx-390-sangean-ats-818-mod.html\">Part 3 Static Protection<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/w9jes.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/mods-for-radio-shack-dx-390-sangean-ats.html\">Part 4 Panadapter<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/w9jes.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/radio-shack-dx-390-sangean-ats-818-files.html\">Radio Shack DX-390 \/ Sangean ATS 818 Files<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w9jes.blogspot.com\/2020\/02\/radio-shack-dx-390-sangean-ats-818.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mod services prices<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w9jes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to check out Jesse&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jesse (W9JES) who writes: I&#8217;ve been busy enhancing my Radio Shack DX-390. I added an IF-Out jack for my SDR, changed out the light for a LED, added a latch circuit for the light switch, added static protection, and disabled auto-mute. My blog with full instructions is at www.w9jes.com [&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":[3,139,43],"tags":[8335,8334,4331,149,8336,5834],"class_list":["post-42107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-modifications","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dx-390","tag-jesse-w9jes","tag-modifications","tag-mods","tag-realistic-dx-390","tag-sangean-ats-818"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aX9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28984,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/tecsun-pl-300-series-modification-disabling-soft-mute\/","url_meta":{"origin":42107,"position":0},"title":"Tecsun PL-300 series modification: disabling soft mute","author":"Thomas","date":"October 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Troy Riedel, who shares the following tip. 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