Storing Stations Into Memory - Grundig Yacht boy 400 Owner's Manual

STORING STATIONS INTO MEMORY

To store a station into memory, you must be tuned to that
station. Then you must decide which of the 40 memories
to store it into. Follow the easy steps outlined below:
HOW TO TELL WHICH MEMORIES ARE
EMPTY
• To determine the next available memory, press the FREE
button once. The memory number is shown in the lower
right corner of the display.
• To see all available memories, press the FREE button over
and over. The empty memory numbers are shown in the
lower right corner of the display.
HOW TO STORE A FREQUENCY INTO
MEMORY
There are 40 memories. Here is a specific example. To store
BBC's evening frequency to North America, 5975 kilohertz,
into memory 32, do the following:
• Press 5 9 7 5.
• Immediately press the FREQU./METER button.
• Press 3 2.
• Immediately press the STORE button. If the display
flashes, it means that a frequency is already stored into
this memory. To overwrite it, immediately press STORE
again. If you don't want to overwrite it, start over and use
a different memory.
HOW TO ACCESS WHAT YOU HAVE
STORED INTO MEMORY
• To access one specific memory, eg. memory 25, press 2 5.
then press either MEMO button.
• To review all filled memories, press either MEMO button
over and over.
• To scan filled memories, press either MEMO button for
about one second, then release it. Scan starts. To stop
scan, press any button.
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CAN DISTANT AM/FM BROADCAST
STATIONS BE RECEIVED?
FM is strictly for local stations. Daytime AM stations usually
have a maximum distance of 50 - 100 miles. At night, AM
broadcast band signals can sometimes be heard over much
greater distances, hundreds of miles away.
HOW IS IT THAT BROADCASTS FROM
AROUND THE WORLD CAN BE HEARD ON
A SHORTWAVE RADIO?
Shortwave radio can be heard around the world because of the
Earth's ionosphere. Think of the ionosphere as a cloud-like layer
enshrouding the Earth at an altitude of 140 - 250 kilometers (90 -
160 miles). It consists of electrons and ions, the density of which
are governed by the Sun and Earth's geomagnetic forces. Radio
waves virtually bounce their way around the Earth, bouncing of
the ionosphere, back down to Earth, often repeating this process
several times. The low angles at which this takes place enable
the radio waves to travel great distances with each bounce. This
whole process is called radio wave deflection and ionosphere
propogation.
HOW CAN I DETERMINE IF AN OUTDOOR
ANTENNA WILL HELP?
While inside your normal listening environment, tune in
a relatively weak shortwave signal. Staying tuned to this
signal, step outside and away from your building. If the
signal strength increases significantly, an outdoor antenna
will help considerably. If there is little or no improvement in
signal strength, an outdoor antenna will help; however, the
amount of improvement will depend on the type of antenna
used.
WHAT TIME STANDARD IS USED IN
SHORTWAVE BROADCAST SCHEDULES?
Since there are many different time zones around the world, it
would be impractical for shortwave broadcasters to give broad-
cast times for each separate time zone.
To simplify matters they list their broadcast schedules
in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), also known as
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), World Time and Zulu Time.
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