Re: [HCDX] Grundig YB400PE

[Igor Pifat <yt1mm@xxxxxx>]

Mike  wrote:


MB> What's with the stupid name "Yacht Boy"?  Why don't they call it MB>
MB> a "Yacht Girl", given the typical male predilection for slapping MB>
MB> feminine monickers
MB> on cars, boats, and other machinery.

The main reason is that Grundig has kept naming most of its portable
radio receivers with different "Boy" names for decades, at least since
the mid-sixties.

MB> Hopefully this YB400PE will pick up as much good karma as my RFB-45 did.
MB> Maybe I will take it with me on another Indian pilgrimage, to Kerala and
MB> Tamil Nadu, later this decade!

I was a very happy owner of the Yacht Boy 300 since 1982. It gave
me long hours of excellent SW/MW/LW reception, and really got me into
serious SW DXing later. A fairly simple design, not too expensive,
analogue of course (Sony ICF-2001 was like a Space Shuttle then), but
still able to pull in a lot of stuff with just a telescopic whip.

Igor, YT1MM


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