{"id":47864,"date":"2021-02-20T07:26:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T11:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=47864"},"modified":"2021-04-15T07:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T11:00:23","slug":"dan-receives-his-new-sangean-ats-909x2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/dan-receives-his-new-sangean-ats-909x2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan receives his new Sangean ATS-909X2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Sangean-ATS-909X2-Danh-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47869\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Sangean-ATS-909X2-Danh-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Sangean-ATS-909X2-Danh-1.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Sangean-ATS-909X2-Danh-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Sangean-ATS-909X2-Danh-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Sangean-ATS-909X2-Danh-1-624x351.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to S<em>WLing Post<\/em> contributor, DanH, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thomas,<\/p>\n<p>My Sangean ATS-909X2 arrived in excellent condition late this Friday afternoon. I will enjoy a shortwave session with the radio this evening and early next morning. Other than setting the clock to UTC and tuning in XEPPM Radio Educacion in Mexico City I haven&#8217;t spent much time with it yet. This 909X2 was purchased from Amazon in the USA and is a retail production model distributed by Sangean USA. I will check-in on Sunday night to share some early impressions.<\/p>\n<p>DanH<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many thanks, Dan! We look forward to your impressions and evaluation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, DanH, who writes: Thomas, My Sangean ATS-909X2 arrived in excellent condition late this Friday afternoon. I will enjoy a shortwave session with the radio this evening and early next morning. Other than setting the clock to UTC and tuning in XEPPM Radio Educacion in Mexico City I haven&#8217;t spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[836,3,43],"tags":[8875,5115,9242,600,8874],"class_list":["post-47864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-ats-909x2","tag-danh","tag-danh-ats-909x2","tag-sangean","tag-sangean-ats-909x2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cs0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47931,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/dan-provides-an-update-to-his-sangean-ats-909x2-first-impressions\/","url_meta":{"origin":47864,"position":0},"title":"Dan provides an update to his Sangean ATS-909X2 first impressions","author":"Thomas","date":"February 26, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, DanH, who shares the following update to his first impressions of the Sangean ATS-909X2: Update: Sangean ATS-909X2 First Impressions by DanH Sangean USA will offer a free software update to customers who have purchased the first USA mass production version of Sangean ATS-909X2. 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