grundig: Grundig Satellit 800 - not made in Germany

The famous grundig Satellit 700 was the last high end shortwave radio developed by Grundig Germany.

It's successor, the Satellit 900, was in development, but Grundig Germany closed down before it went into production. The Eton E1 was advertised in USA as Grundig / Lextronix, it looked similar, but the electronic design was probably only closely related to Grundig but more a development from Eton / Drake. It was definitely not made in Germany.

The same is the case with the Satellit 800: this set has an appearence similar to the Grundig Satellit 600 / 650, but it's definitely designed and marketed by Lexington / Grundig USA (in collaboration with R. L. Drake) and probably made in China.

So it's an interesting radio and nice performer, but it's definitely not German engineering inside...

Hope this helps if you come across a Satellit Radio with a model number higher then 700.
Martin

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CEO Esmail Hozour founder of Eton, bought as many licenses and information to manufacture electronic entertainment, using the Grundig name

He aquired all prototypes of the 900 from the early ninties, and updated the technology to that of the last decade (mostly the memory section and integrating triple conversion for shorwave)

In fact, it was his passion to realize the Satellit 900, with the E1 unit, but his greatest drawback was manufacturing boards in China, using an Indian assembly plant to assemble the radio, and having RL Drake for support and repair

It was a noble of him to reintroduse a radio that would be a "succesor" of the 700, but he was fighting many obstacles to keep it going

The 800 isn not such a bad radio, and it should be noted that the 800 uses the same exact antenna as earlier Satellit models

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