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RECEIVER REVIEW: GRUNDIG YB400
Year Introduced: 1994 (NA-centric PE version 4th Q 1998) Power: 9 vDC (6 AA), AC adaptor optional (included in PE version) Size: 180 x 120 x 37 mm Weight: 600g Price: US$149.95, CAN$250, £105, A$400, £120.00, €195 Coverage: 144-351 kHz, 520-1710 kHz, 1.711-30 MHz, FM 87.5-108 MHz
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This review was compiled independently. The Medium Wave Circle and Radio Netherlands has no financial connection with R.L. Drake, the manufacturer of this receiver.
Reviewers: Jonathan Marks, Diana Janssen, and Willem Bos.
The Yacht Boy 400 was launched at the end of 1993 in North America. In fact at £105 across Europe, the Yacht Boy 400 turns out to be a great value package. Our example is clearly made for Grundig in the Peoples’ Republic of China. Grundig has designed the unit and supervised the quality control. The Yacht Boy 400 looks like many travel portables. At 180 by 120 by 37 millimetres, the set is about the size of a paperback book, it works off six penlight batteries and weighs 708 grams with batteries.
Despite a rather clumsy instruction booklet literally translated from German, if you practice a little, the Yacht Boy 400 is extremely easy to use. You simply tap in the desired frequency and press a button. Two buttons allow you to shuttle up and down the dial and on shortwave you can flip between 5 kHz steps and 1 kHz. The radio offers two bandwidths, and both filters have a good shape factor for a portable radio. The speaker is closely matched to the cabinet, so the radio sounds much richer and fuller than competing sets from Japan.
The radio turns out to be sensitive, without serious problems of overloading here in Europe. You can store up 40 stations in the memory and using a separate set of up-down buttons you can flip through the active memory channels with ease. Like most radios, the set will scan through the dial stopping at stronger, listenable signals.
Clearly some compromises have had to be made to keep the price down. You can receive signal sideband using the radio, but clarification of either the upper or lower sideband is by means of a thumbwheel rather than the push of a button. The radio also has no synchronous detection, but the sharp bandwidth filters in Grundig, which come out at 5.5 and 3 kHz at -6dB, are a strong plus point.
FM coverage is between 87.5 and 108 MHz, with stereo possible if you connect the pair of earphones. The sensitivity on FM is about right for Europe… may be a little too sensitive for cities in North America where the FM dial is crowded. You can connect an external antenna for areas where shortwave signals are relatively weak. The radio is supplied with a washing-line antenna, though you don’t really need it in Europe. The dial light can be illuminated for bed-side listening, the set has two clocks for keeping track of both local time and UTC and a recessed lock switch to prevent accidental battery drain when the radio is put in a suitcase. We got just over 20 hours of listening from a fresh set of alkaline batteries, listening for periods of an hour a day. That’s not bad, but running the set off the mains is a lot cheaper. A mains power supply is not included as part of the package though.
In short, Grundig has made a superb portable. They would do well to re-write the instruction manual and supply more up to date schedule information… the one packed with our radio was clearly compiled nearly four years ago. Overall, this set is a good value, and it sounds very good.
The Grundig Yacht Boy 400 won the 1994 World Radio TV Handbook Industry Award for Best Shortwave Portable.
In North America, Lextronix released the titanium-coloured finish YB-400PE (Professional Edition) in the fourth quarter of 1998. Electrically, there is no difference between the YB-400 and YB-400PE. A Grundig-brand AC adapter is included, as are stereo ear plugs, wind-up antenna, a re-written owners manual and vinyl carry case. The out-of-date schedule information has been dropped in lieu of sources of information on broadcasters and schedules.
This review first appeared on the Radio Netherlands website.
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The Grundig YB400PE, with its sleek titanium look, is packed with features like no other compact radio in the world. The YB400PE does it all; pulls in AM/FM-stereo and Shortwave, with continuous tuning from 1711-29,995 KHz. SSB circuitry allows for reception of Single Sideband two-way communications such as amateur radio (HAM radio).
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GRUNDIG YACHT BOY 400 User Manual (32 pages)
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- Table of Contents 2
- Your Unit at a Glance 4
- Front of Unit 7
- Top of Unit 9
- Right Side of Unit 10
- Left Side of Unit 10
- Rear of Unit 10
- Power Supply 12
- Mains Operation 12
- Battery Operation 12
- Battery Check 12
- Data Protection (Mains and Battery Operation) 13
- RESET Button 13
- General Operation 14
- Switching On/Off and Locking 14
- Direct Entries 14
- Display Illumination 14
- Volume and Tone 15
- Waveband Selection 15
- Station Tuning 16
- Frequency Tuning in the FM Band 16
- Frequency Tuning in the am Band 16
- Station Tuning with the Numeric Buttons 18
- Entering a Meter Band 19
- Storing, Calling Up, and Clearing 21
- What Can You Store 21
- Checking the Reception Frequency 21
- Creating/Overwriting a Memory Position 21
- Calling up Stored Stations 21
- Indicating Free Memory Positions 22
- Clearing a Memory Position 22
- Going to Sleep to Music 23
- The Clock 24
- Setting the Clock (TIME I) 24
- Setting the Clock (TIME II) 24
- Clock Time Indication (TIME I/II) 24
- Automatic Switch-On/Wake-Up Function 25
- Entering a Switch-On Time 25
- Checking the Entered Switch-On Time 25
- Wake-Up with Radio/Automatic Switch-On 25
- Wake-Up with Sound Signal/Date Reminder 26
- Clearing the Wake-Up Function 26
- Special Functions on am 27
- SSB Mode (Amateur Radio Reception) 27
- Interferences 27
- Specification 28
- Specification Hints – Prescriptions 30
- Hints - Prescriptions 30
- Radio Stations 30
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Time Owned: more than 12 months. I have had my Yachtboy 400 since 2003; bought refurbished from Universal Radio for $99.00. I have used this radio at home and camping, with internal and external antennas, on MW, FM and SW bands; this radio has been great. It performs well beyond the expectations of a $99.00 radio.
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RESET Button. If, due to external interferences (caused by static charges of carpets, thunderstorms, etc.), the control electronics of your Yacht Boy 400 should receive bad information signals, or if no entries at all are pos-sible, press the ¢ RESET button. This is to be found between the ¢ AM and the ¢ LOCK button.
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