ROM Table of the Yacht Boy 500
When receiving FM stations which are normally supposed to service relatively small areas, you can expect an equally good reception quality all over the day. With some restrictions, this applies also for local LW and MW stations.
When receiving SW stations, the signal has covered in most cases very long distances.
Due to physical laws, the same constantly good reception quality as known from local reception can thus not be guaranteed for SW reception.
Most radio stations which operate with SW are broadcasting their programmes on several frequencies. Through this distribution onto several SW bands, the best propagation conditions during the different times of day and even during different seasons are used.
To offer you a most convenient operation also when receiving on the SW bands, your GRUNDIG Yacht Boy 500 has been provided with a memory containing a ROM table (ROM = READ ONLY MEMORY), into which 90 frequencies of 9 radio stations which are operating all over the world are stored. If you wish (press the MODE button (20)), the display will in- dicate the frequency currently tuned to (see list) beside the country sign and the station abbreviation.
Selecting Frequencies
For the table, frequencies have been selected on which mainly programmes in the respective national languages, but also service programmes for foreigners in the corres- ponding language (partly also in German) are broad- casted.
Despite of the up most care taken over the selection of the frequencies, it may happen, when calling up a memory lo- cation, that ...
a)you hear a different station than that indicated in the dis- play,
b)you hear only disturbing noise.
In the first case, the cause is to be found in the multiple use of certain frequencies.
In the second case, there are several causes possible. For example, that...
-the station concerned is currently not broadcasting on this frequency,
-the station has temporarily exchanged this frequency with another frequency, or
-the current reception conditions for the area concerned are very bad
.
In such cases, it is recommended to call up (interrogate) all alternative frequencies stored for the station concerned (for this, use the
For detailed information about programmes, broadcasting times, and eventually changed frequencies, please contact the respective radio stations.
We are sure that, with this ROM table, we have placed a means at your disposal which offers you the possibility of quickly and securely tune to worldwide operating SW Stations, even if you have only little experience in short wave reception.
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