Yacht-Boy 500

• Country
• Germany

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Grundig (Radio-Vertrieb, RVF, Radiowerke); Fürth/Bayern

• Year
• 1993 ?

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 73722

• • alternative name: Grundig Portugal || Grundig USA / Lextronix

• Picture
• Schematics

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• 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.

• Other Models

• Here you find 6208 models, 5437 with images and 4205 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Grundig (Radio-Vertrieb, RVF, Radiowerke); Fürth/Bayern