DX'ing During The Power Outage

When the remnants of last week's hurricane took the power down, the only radio I had batteries for was my trusty Radio Shack DX-350 multi-band radio.  I bought it around the time of all the Y2K crappideaux.  The little thing really is a nice performer, pulling in a lot of distant AM stations.  I think it even outdid my Optimus AM/FM TRF radio.  The DX-350 certainly makes a handy emergency radio, running on 4 AA batteries.  The Optimus is a good radio, but I can't get D cells at Costco.  It runs on 6 of them.