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19th Apr 2021, 10:36 am | #21 |
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Re: Grundig use of BOY in model names?
We have two Grundig Yacht boys, one bought from Comet in about 1968 and has travel all round Europe and South as far as Rome on family camping holidays and now is in my workshop. In all that time its had just one capacitor fail in the power supply. The other Yacht boy I bought from a jumble sale for 50p as not working, the live was disconnected in the 13 amp plug, it has never failed. Both now need a pair of small knobs. Ted
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19th Apr 2021, 10:59 am | #22 | |
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19th Apr 2021, 11:56 am | #23 | |
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19th Apr 2021, 12:33 pm | #24 |
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Re: Grundig use of BOY in model names?
Was 'boy' not seen as an English colloquialism at the time: 'You, boy!' and the snappiness might've appealed as a selling point?
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Socket is just where you would expect an earphone one to be. Google translate says that “boy” means the same in English and German although it was “Junge” when I was at school. Perhaps the English word has passed into German through the Grundig connection? Perhaps one of our German friends could comment? Peter |
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19th Apr 2021, 2:24 pm | #27 |
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Re: Grundig use of BOY in model names?
The boarding school I went to between 1975 and 1980 had a Party Boy 500 in the common room of each dormitory (alongside a mono Philips TV), on mains power and invariably tuned to Radio 1 on MW.
It is a good sound set. I have one here, bought around 20 years ago, that gets used periodically. It was last used for the Absolute Radio VE Day special last year. |
19th Apr 2021, 11:50 pm | #28 |
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Rescued this one from a skip last year.
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20th Apr 2021, 9:36 am | #29 |
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Re: Grundig use of BOY in model names?
I have a Party Boy 100 in the barn for when I'm chopping wood. Still works a treat, covered in sawdust and crud. In the '70s, after much deliberation between Hacker and Grundig, I lashed out on a Concert Boy 1100 from Curry's. I can date the purchase because not long afterwards I put the diamond stickers on the dial for the new BBC station markers.
But the best Grundig set I came across was the Transistor 865 (a.k.a. Mariner) my dad used to have: beautifully made - similar to the Yacht Boy in appearance, but no 'Boy' appended to it. I remember listening to BBC Radio Carlisle (now Radio Cumbria) for the first broadcast on it!
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20th Apr 2021, 9:41 am | #30 |
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Re: Grundig use of BOY in model names?
I use a rather battered Party Boy 209 as my everyday bathroom radio. Power comes from a pair of 18650 cells which I recharge every year or so.
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20th Apr 2021, 11:32 am | #31 |
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Re: Grundig use of BOY in model names?
My Dad put the diamond stickers on his Elite Boy 700, I think this model was introduced in 1976, and the frequency change was in November 1978.
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