I am over the moon. I found a DX-398 at a garage sale today, working, battery compartment looks brand new. The guy said they had not used it in maybe 15 years, it was stored in the 4 drawer filing cabinet. He wanted $50 all I had was $30 and they sold it to me. It has the book, the faux leather carry case, and looks 8 of 10 with a few small scratches on the back. I will connect it to my shortwave antenna (longwire in the attic) tonight and see how it shakes out. This model was sold at Radio Shack and I believe it is made by Sangean and is a clone of the ATS-909 maybe.

Still, fun little experiment.

I have really enjoyed the Mlite 880 as I think if it as a Communications Reciever ... It's reception is very good but the span from 25 mHz to 27 mHz is rather low in signal es the blank area from 30 mHz to 64 mHz ... Other than that it's a great reciever ... !!

Then late June it stopped charging the battery es the 21700 li-on started to go dead .... The little red lightening indicated was not coming on ... I have some 18650 li-ons but they worked but poor fit es they would not show a charge ... Si I ordered a charger and 21700 battery ...

At this time I wrote elecevolve and they said to ship the radio to them ... Well $75 to do that es they said they would reimburse me but???

The charger came in so did the battery but the radio will not charge so the radio works fine but no charge ... There is an onboard chip that handles the charging ... I figure it maybe the culprit 4065 li-on controller ... The li-on that came with the radio will not charge so it died es maybe took out the li-on control chip died es caused the battery to die or the battery killed the charge circuit...

I'll keep everyone informed