• Year
  • 1993 ?
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 73722
    • alternative name: Grundig Portugal || Grundig USA / Lextronix

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 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Transistors
  • Semiconductors present.
  • Semiconductors
  • Main principle
  • PLL, Phase-locked loop
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast, Long Wave, Short Wave plus FM or UHF.
  • Power type and voltage
  • Batteries / addl. power jack / AA 4 x 1.5 V / 9 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 7.7 cm = 3 inch
  • Power out
  • 3 W (unknown quality)
  • Material
  • Plastics (no bakelite or catalin)
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Yacht-Boy 500 - Grundig Radio-Vertrieb, RVF,
  • Shape
  • Very small Portable or Pocket-Set (Handheld) < 8 inch.
  • Dimensions (WHD)
  • 113 x 186 x 41 mm / 4.4 x 7.3 x 1.6 inch
  • Notes
  • RDS & FM-Stereo (nur über Kopfhörer), SSB, 40 Speicherplätze + 90 zusätzliche durch ROM.

    Main features

    • Frequency coverage
      • FM: 87.5 - 108 MHz
        • Tuning steps: 100 kHz, 25 kHz
        • IF: 10.7 MHz
        • RDS system
      • LW: 150 - 353 kHz 
        • Tuning steps: 9 kHz, 1 kHz
      • MW: 513 - 1611 kHz
        • Tuning steps: 9 kHz, 1 kHz (10 kHz, 1 kHz when on USA mode)
      • SW: 1612 - 29999 kHz full coverage
        • Additional 90, 80, 75, 60, 49, 41, 40, 31, 30, 25, 22, 20, 19, 17, 16, 15, 13, 12, 11, 10 m bands selection 
        • Tuning steps: 5 kHz, 1 kHz
      • AM modes
        • AM, SSB (USB, LSB) with fine Tuning 
        • Single 3.5 kHz bandwidth
      • AM double conversion
        • 1st IF: 54.5 MHz
        • 2nd IF: 450 kHz
    • Clock, sleep timer, Alarm
    • Power supply:
      • Dry batteries 
      • External AC adapter model NR 90-1 thru the DC IN 9V socket

     

  • Net weight (2.2 lb = 1 kg)
  • 0.6 kg / 1 lb 5.1 oz (1.322 lb)
  • Price in first year of sale
  • 499.00 DM
  • Source of data
  • -- Original-techn. papers.
  • Author
  • Model page created by Martin Bösch. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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