Grundig Radio Boy - Grundig Yacht Boy 360

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Yacht Boy 360 - 1995-1997

And from behind....

Right side, showing the volume control, different, and easier to use, than the YB500's:

There are 2 versions of this radio, the Standard version, featured here, and the Yacht Boy 360 IB, (Presumabaly aimed at Italy. IB = Italian Bands?) with restricted LW & SW coverage. The IB set covers LW, 150-302kHz, and SW, 3950-26100MHz.

Sound quality for a set this size is good. It lacks the bass and power of the YB500, it's similarly styled sibling, but then it was a cheaper radio. The loudspeaker is smaller than the YB500's too.
The power output is only available via the internal speaker. The output socket is for stereo headphones only.
There are 2 clues to the fact that this radio is not Portugese made, as inferred by Passport to World Band Radio. Firstly, the DC input socket is wired positive to sleeve, negative to centre conductor, the opposite of the Portugese sets, and the same as all far Eastern built Grundigs. Secondly, It doesn't state the country of manufacture anywhere on the set, European built models always do, Far East models never do. Sadly, without the packaging, I can't say exactly where it did originate from.

Specification:

Styling: Styling, as can be seen, is similar in detail to the YB500, the numerical keys are even spaced exactly the same. Curiously, the 5 key omits the "pip" found on the YB500's 5 key, to aid the visually impaired. An ommision?

Styling was clearly influenced, if not actually done by NPK, the same Dutch styling house who also styled the Yacht Boy 500. (They only lay claim to the YB500 on their website). Some other lower end analogue Yacht Boys, and the Satellit 900, also carry the same styling cues as these 2 models. The Satellit 900 was displayed at the Berlin Audio/Video fair in 1995, but did not reach the market, due to a let-down by a component manufacturer. The YB500 first appeared at the Berlin Audio/Video fair two years earlier, in 1993, the YB360 appeared in 1995.

Country of manufacture: Unknown, but clearly the Far East.

Size: 120mm high x 178mm wide x 40mm deep.

Weight (excluding batteries): 0.6 kg.

Power supply:

Internal; 6 x AA cells, 9V.

External; 9V DC.

Battery meter:

Low voltage warning symbol on LCD display. Auto shut-off when voltage drops too low.

Tuning method: Digital PLL synthesizer

Tuning options:

Slew keys

Auto-search

Auto-scan (AM)

Direct keying-in of frequencies and SW metre-bands

User programmable presets

Manual memory scan

SW metre-band skip.

Wavebands:

FM: 87.5-108 mHz, tuning steps 50kHz.

AFC: N/A.

LW 144-353 kHz, tuning steps 1kHz or 9kHz, (selectable). Mode: AM

MW 520-1710 kHz, tuning steps 1kHz or 9/10kHz (switchable between 9/10kHz). Mode: AM

SW 1711-30000 kHz, tuning steps 1kHz or 5kHz. Mode: AM

IF's:

FM; 10.7 MHz

AM; 55.85MHz & 455kHz (Dual conversion).

Station memories:

Yes, 40.

Tuning meter: Yes, 5 segment LCD, (has appearance of 20 segment).

Local/DX switch: No

Aerials: Ferrite rod for LW & MW, Telescopic for FM & SW

Dial illumination: Yes:

Press for 10 seconds of illumination of LCD display. Pressing again while light is on will switch it off.

Mono selector: Yes, slide switch.

Sockets:

Inputs;

DC 9V input

Outputs;

Stereo headphone, 32-2000 ohm, 3.5mm

Output power:

320 mW RMS.

Speaker: 2.5 inch dia.

Tone control: Treble switch.

Clock/Timer:

2 x 24 hour clocks, either one displayed full time, with toggle key to select. Seconds display when radio switched off.

1 x user programmable timer, switches on for one hour, last station tuned, or bleep.

Snooze function.

Sleep timer, programmable in 10 minute steps up to 60 minutes.

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