{"id":48343,"date":"2021-03-31T12:43:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=48343"},"modified":"2021-03-31T12:45:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:45:20","slug":"the-sangean-ats-909x2-has-landed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/the-sangean-ats-909x2-has-landed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sangean ATS-909X2 has landed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This morning, I took delivery of an ATS-909X2 that Sangean dispatched for me to evaluate. I’ll be writing a review of this radio for an upcoming issue of The Spectrum Monito<\/a>r magazine.<\/p>\n

I won’t lie: this is a handsome radio.<\/p>\n

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I know some SWLs dislike the front panel tuning dial, but I like it. It reminds me of one of my all-time favorite radios: the Sony ICF-SW55:<\/p>\n

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I also love the ‘909X2’s large display and intelligent backlighting.<\/p>\n

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I’ve just started setting up the ‘909X2: inputting local time, setting DST, changing the format to 24 hours, and learning my way around manual and direct-entry tuning.<\/p>\n

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The manual appears to be very<\/em> comprehensive and I plan to go through it page by page because this radio actually has quite a lot of settings\/configurations.<\/p>\n

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SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, DanH<\/a> has had his ATS-909X2 for quite a while and I expect he’ll be updating us on his findings when he has time. Also, I understand Dave Zantow has been evaluating this radio and should also be sharing his thoughts soon. We’ll provide updates when available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, I took delivery of an ATS-909X2 that Sangean dispatched for me to evaluate. I’ll be writing a review of this radio for an upcoming issue of The Spectrum Monitor magazine. I won’t lie: this is a handsome radio. I know some SWLs dislike the front panel tuning dial, but I like it. It […]<\/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":[8875,600,8874],"class_list":["post-48343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-ats-909x2","tag-sangean","tag-sangean-ats-909x2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-czJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48527,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/daves-review-of-the-sangean-ats-909x2\/","url_meta":{"origin":48343,"position":0},"title":"Dave’s review of the Sangean ATS-909X2","author":"Thomas","date":"April 13, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who notes that Dave (N9EWO) has posted his review of the Sangean ATS-909X2. 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