Hi.
I found that the D cells in my DX390 would go flat in about 30 days no
matter what I did, so I make a policy of only having batteries in that
radio if I am going portable somewhere, and the rest of the time I take the
D cells out and just run it on the wall adaptor.
73, de Lou K2LKK
At 11:23 AM 5/24/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Jeff, Here's the note, dd
>Hi Jeff, I've owned a couple of the dx392/akaSangean 818cs, and the
>dx390/aka Sangean 818,/same rx<recorder. My experience has been that Both
>are pretty good, although not excellent receivers, and the former are
>pretty good recorders. Keyboard is a little unhandy in terms of layout, but
>once you get the hang of it, it makes for a very handy addition to your
>arsonal. There've been quite a few times I've regretted, for one reason or
>another, selling/swapping mine. The clock/memory set of 3, AA batteries
>will last
>almost indefinitely, but I had several_ sets of different brands of 4,
>alkoline
>D cells in several different units, to suffer from corosion, and the battery
>case is more than a little difficult to take apart and clean. Make sure to
>1, use adequately amped" AC adapter when possible. 2, ____Make sure to
>check your 4, d, cells, often, for corosion, and get them out of there
>immediately at ___The ___First ___Sign of possible trouble. Again, I don't
>know why I had so many instances of corosion in the battery wells of the
>390s and 392s I've owned, but I have.....the only other receiver with
>anywhere near the battery problems in my experience has been the
>radioshack/sangean dx440/Aka803.
>
> Make Sure You Also Check 9/10 kc set switch, it's in the bottom of the
>AA portion of the AA section of the battery well. Also, be sure to check
>out the receiver on _all bands before taking delivery on it, the FM may do
>very well, and you may only get _Very local_ reception on the SW, LW, and Mw
>bands, or MW may be normal, and the other three very weak. Usually this
>happens because of a weird/apparently ""bent just so seating of Either, Or,
>the rod antenna, and or the ext antenna jack.
>If you haven't already, and can, take a tape whose speed, angle of asmeth,
>etc, you're familiar with...a factory recorded music tape, with some slow
>soft passages is probably best, as I have encountered one of these units
>whose speed was ______Way Way Way! Slow......a c60 would last nearly 2hours
>per side with that one, at somewhat reduced fidelity....very handy for some
>applications, but you'd have to redub tapes to be able to use them on
>another machine.
> In short, for a radio/recorder, it sounds good, once you learn its'
>querks, and it'll do what you ask it to do, receive and record pretty well.
>Don't let my comments desuade you, just be prepared. They were closed out
>for $50 bucks by radioshack, I think still bring 3to4times that, new, from
>Sangean, and are, when they're right, _Very handy and usually pretty
>dependable. If I can help you further, let me know. Danny Dyer, Wb4idu.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jeff Kenyon" <
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>To: <
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>Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 9:17 PM
>Subject: off topic short-wave receiver
>
> > Hi everyone, in a few days I am planning on purchasing the Radio Shack
> > DX-392 and it is used, and it has the tape recorder on it. I was just
> > wondering if anyone on here has used this unit? Any pointers or things to
> > look out for would be great, and thanks in advance.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:55 AM
>Subject: Re: off topic short-wave receiver
>
>
> > Hi, I haven't gotten anything yet, and that's still something I have to
> > figure out, but I will not probably get mine until a few weeks from now.
> > I didn't get your note either.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 24 May 2006, Danny Dyer wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Jeff, Did you get your dx392 yet? Did you get my note in response to
> > > yours concerning it? Thanks, Danny.
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 9:17 PM
> > > Subject: off topic short-wave receiver
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi everyone, in a few days I am planning on purchasing the Radio
>Shack
> > > > DX-392 and it is used, and it has the tape recorder on it. I was just
> > > > wondering if anyone on here has used this unit? Any pointers or
>things to
> > > > look out for would be great, and thanks in advance.
> > >
> >
Louis Kim Kline
A.R.S. K2LKK
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