After reading and watching many reviews – I picked up a D-808 about a month ago. The reason being wanting something cargo pocket sized to use rather than my Grundig Yacht Boy 400. Ran across one that was essentially NOS – New Old Stock – and I really didn’t want to use/abuse it as a daily beater. It’s way too pristine for that – so I started looking . . .
The D-808 . . .
The Grundig YB 400PE – the “PE” – “Professional Edition” – is a just a YB 400 in a silver finish – a very good performer in either edition – for a pocket sized radio sort of the gold standard – it will just fit in a cargo pocket – I really didn’t want to use a truly collectable radio as a beater . . .
A side by side look at the little darlings . . .
I haven’t gotten a lot of SWL done with yet – but I have been working a lot of AM broadcast band with it and it’s a very good performer – the limited SWL I have done with it – mostly daytime – it seems to be really good – I have almost found my radio room so the next look at it I can give you should be a better deep dive look at the SWL performance of it – I’m actually on a human schedule – sleeping nights – up during the day. After 20 plus years of nights it only took 11 months to start sleeping like a normal human – LOL!
Here’s a great review from Todderbert – he has a good YouTube channel with a LOT of reviews – go check him out – worth the click through!
Is the little radio worth the + – $100 dollars? Except for the audio quality – an itsy bitsy teeny weeny speaker – plug in an extension speaker or use a set of headphones if you can’t stand the speaker! – I would say go ahead and get one and drive it like you stole it – nice little radio!
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