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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 natio nal 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 MONO/ROM-AF button (21)).
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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