Is the Sangean ANT-60 Short Wave Antenna worth the purchase with this radio? I know it comes with an external antenna,but how long is it? Work well?
1130455
For garage use you really might want something with a little more sound output. You might look at Grundig S350 DL. The SW reception will probably be better too.
1130456
I would also look at the PL-600. It has SSB and allows adjustments in sensitivity. Good reviews.
1130457
I meant to tell you that this radio does not have an external antenna jack. So the Sangean could not plug in . You would have to clip it to the telescoping antenna. I'll try to get a list of radios for you. Do you have a cost limit?
1130458
The external antenna is approximately 13 ft 6 in. It works, but there are radios with better sensitivity. This little radio really shines on the FM band with AM a close second. Since I haven't tried another external antenna, I'm not sure if anything will help SW much more.
1615268
no....telescoping antenna flips from the side aprox 2 1/2 ft still happy with the radio, although at one point the on/off volume became scratchy fixed it by turning the knob quickly several times and the scratchy sound was no more and hasnt come back. maybe picked up static from me. welcome to analogue.plan to purchase a couple more.
482305
what is the best type of rabbit ear antenna to use?? The picture says weak or no signal, and does this mean the antenna is not picking anything up. Less than a half of a mile from a transmitter site. Don't know why it isn't picking up tv stations when I do auto program.??? Please advise
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YesANY antenna is far, far better than no antenna at all. And this antenna is a cheapie but it woks well if you experiment with where you place it. Go online and research reviews of DM antennas to find one better than this. You will need a push-on Balun adapter provided your unit has such an output made to accept it, found here on Amazon, to connect it to your receiver or FM tuner.Good luck to you. Happy listening.
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From my experience with just buying one recently, is that it picks up stations just fine. there is no external antenna. I thinks it's a nice, small, sturdy music player, with surprising sound. I don't live in a city or anything. I will be checking it out this weekend where i'm in the middle of a large farming area, so we will see how well it picks up there! I love the fact that you can have your own music with the mini SD card!
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D~ did you get this and does it work for you? I am also in SJ and looking at getting an antenna. Thx!!!
1924250
I highly recommend your own antenna if you want to get the most distance out of the transmitter. I still got a solid mile easy with it, no sound degradation. But the connector on mine was loose so if it wasn't balanced vertically it would fall over. It was about 3 feet extended, maybe 10" folded, between 1/4"-1/8" diameter. Pretty normal looking radio antenna, just used for transmitting instead of receiving. :-PAny more questions I'll try to answer, but extreme specifics I'll have to ask the guy at my church cause I gave it to them for drive in movies. :-)
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Dear Michelle,Please don´t waste your time and money with this product. Only good use I have had for it is to use it as a mousepad... You better go around some radio shops asking for antenna for your radio. Aiwa is a good brand, I hope you will make it sound good!
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Not very well, it works ok fully extended. The best Antennas I have are the Nagoya 701 and 771, they are fixed length but work awesome. The 701 is the short one 7" and the 771 is about 15".
784647
The HD radio uses a 75 ohm ant. connection. The radio did come with an in the house ant. Mine was white. If you are using a 75 ohm connection, get a 75 ohm splitter from Radio Shack or Wal-Mart. I'm not sure what kind of antenna connection you want to split.
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The 660 slv is just the silver version rather than the black; identical otherwise. Mine came with a simple external antenna about 10-15 ft long that plugs into the antenna jack on the radio and has a clip on the other end to attach to whatever is handy to string it out. Use it judicially though; it not only increases reception of signals but background noises and interference from nearby electronics (TVs, etc).
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I played with the ANT-100 antenna for a few days. This antenna did not improve the reception over the antenna that came attached to the radio even when I raised it up higher than my radio and tried different locations. I needed to improve reception. So I made a simple dipole antenna (cut to the weather frequency) out of a piece of speaker wire stapled to a piece of wood trim. My homemade dipole works great! My ANT-100 External Antenna is lying in my junk box collecting dust. If I remember, I cut the cord off the ANT-100 and used cord with jack to plug the dipole into my radio.
72531
Looking at the S350DL manual, you could clip the Sangean ANT-60 to the telescoping whip antenna. It would not directly support connections to the rear antenna jacks, however.
1272305
Depends on what you're looking for. This is a great little radio and I happen to like it a lot. I am an FM Dxer and this radio can receive stations up to 100 miles away on FM or more regularly. As far as shortwave radios go, there are better ones on the market. If you are willing to shell out the cash for Sangean 909x. That is the best shortwave radio out there. I would consider sticking with Grundig, Tecsun, Sangean. They are the best brands for this.
891082
The reception is outstanding. I get similar, if not better reception with my Sangean radio than with my car radio. Most of the time I don't even extend the antenna to pick up my favorite stations.
1493741
The antenna is internal, but I'm able to pick up radio stations pretty well with it, including Q95, a radio station over 70 miles away in a straight line from home.I would only say that its reception capability isn't quite as good as with a radio with an external antenna, including a car's, but it still works surprisingly well.
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An external antenna comes with it. I don't think you can add another one.It's a really fine radio. My classical music station is often hard to get in my area but it comes in very well on this radio.