GRUNDIG YB-500 REVIEWS?
Robert Cuthbert
of geewiz buttons and features but how is it compared to the
yb400?Understand its slightly better on SSB?
I can get a 500 for less then half price of new yb400. Assuming radio
OK is this a good price?
eh
radio. My Sat-700 and ATS-803a are much more sensitive.
The YB-500 has a great display and nice operating system.
It's truly unfortunate that it is really only useful on local or
very strong stations, including FM. I really like having RDS.
Now a radio seems pointless without it.
If you use google, you will find a number of good online reviews.
The upshot of which is:
Some people hate the user interface
Superb audio
eats batteries
Not a DX machine / Requires strong signals
I love the thing, but it can't get ANYTHING from within my apartment.
There's no external antenna jack.
--Eirikur
john KB5AG
looking?
John
"Robert Cuthbert" <r.cut...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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Tony Shimi
E-bay. I replaced it with a Grundig 800. I agree with everything "eh" says;
I like to add that the user interface is the worst I have seen in my over
50 years of using radios; the radio is well made, however.
Tony
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Robert Cuthbert wrote in message <3E763E87...@sympatico.ca>...
>I'm looking at a yb500 and have seen mixed reviews for it. It has a lot
>of geewiz buttons and features but how is it compared to the
>yb400?Understand its slightly better on SSB?
I bought a yb500 about 6 years ago and it is the only digital SW radio I
have ever owned so I don't really have anything to compare it to. Good
points are the features, RDS on FM, frequencies continuous way up to 30MHz,
SSB and CW demodulation, etc. There were a few annoyances though. It does
not work very well on NiCads voltage (although I modified it), when you are
monitoring frequencies between broadcast or amateur bands you cannot let it
scan automatically, you have to keep pressing + or - buttons to go up 1kHz
at a time. The FM sound is great but I was not too impressed at the AM
sound, bandwidth was too narrow and sounds muffled although this can be
helped somewhat by tunning 1 or 2 kHz to the side of the carrier frequency
(the side with least interference from adjacent stations). SSB actually
sounds better than AM to me on this radio and it is very easy to tune SSB.
The processor creates a lot of noise and this is especially noticeable on
longwave (about 150 to 300 kHz), in fact I would say that longwave reception
on this radio is very poor. Maybe processor noise is normal for digital
shortwave radios of this vintage, as I say I have only ever owned one.
In summary I would say it's a good radio for the SWL despite the few
annoyances I describe above. The one thing on it which was missing for me
was a switchable wider AM bandwidth so that you could listen to strong
stations with a decent amount of treble.
Robert Cuthbert
I purchased yb 500 for 73USD (NO manual/ adapter) -now I better sell my DX 160
""MINT"' (JOKE ok??) to make roomfor it