Tag Archives: Qodosen DX-286

2 Radios, 4 Ways

Posted on October 2, 2025 by Kevin

The fellow with the hard hat standing next to one of the three big power company trucks parked in front of my neighbor’s house said they were working on the transformer and the power would be off for a couple … Continue reading →

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The Battle of the Sixes: Part 2

Posted on September 17, 2025 by Kevin

Continued from The Battle of the Sixes: Part 1. In this part I discuss reception performance and audio quality, with my final conclusions. Performance MW The first barrier in comparing MW performance is that the DP-666 doesn’t have an internal … Continue reading →

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The Battle of the Sixes: Part 1

Posted on September 10, 2025 by Kevin

A Comparison of two radios based on the TEF6686 DSP chip This post title was inspired by my new Sparkelec DP-666 radio based on the NXM TEF6686 DSP chip. That’s a lot of sixes. Here I compare two radios based … Continue reading →

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Setting Multi-Zone Radio Clocks

Posted on August 18, 2025 by Kevin

The Problem I have 4, perhaps more, radios that have a capability to display both local time and UTC. They are: Eton Elite Executive, Qodosen DX-286/SR-286 and Sangean ATS-909. I don’t understand the setting process fully, and the manual didn’t … Continue reading →

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PLL Progress

Posted on August 15, 2025 by Kevin

I have an ongoing project to compare some PLL Superhet radios I have, a Grundig G4000A, Kaito KA-1101, Sangean ATS-909, Tecsun PL-660 and Tecsun PL-990. I’ve had some bad luck with my last TWO visits to the park, interrupted by … Continue reading →

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Small, Medium, Large failure

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Kevin

I went down to Pleasant Grove Park this morning before 9AM local time to do a comparison between three radios — one small, one medium and one large. It promised to be a beautiful day as I looked off to … Continue reading →

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Radio en Úbeda

Posted on June 5, 2025 by Kevin

I want to make a bit of a change in the blog and I haven’t quite figured how to do it. The idea is to add some travel content and some photography, but without watering down the radio focus. It … Continue reading →

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