{"id":66453,"date":"2026-06-26T01:12:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=66453"},"modified":"2026-06-26T01:12:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:12:38","slug":"marks-charity-shop-find-a-grundig-elite-boy-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/marks-charity-shop-find-a-grundig-elite-boy-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark&#8217;s Charity Shop Find: A Grundig Elite Boy 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Elite-Boy-500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66454\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Elite-Boy-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Elite-Boy-500.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Elite-Boy-500-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Elite-Boy-500-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Elite-Boy-500-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Elite-Boy-500-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to<em> SWling Post<\/em> contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Thomas,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">My local charity shop received a donation recently in the form of a Grundig Elite Boy 500.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It&#8217;s in working order, although the volume control needed some Deoxit D5 to solve some bad scratching. Good cosmetic condition and works across all the bands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Here&#8217;s a YouTube video I\u00a0made of it in action:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/skwAP7X9VNs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Mark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWling Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes: Thomas, My local charity shop received a donation recently in the form of a Grundig Elite Boy 500. It&#8217;s in working order, although the volume control needed some Deoxit D5 to solve some bad scratching. Good cosmetic condition and works across all the bands. Here&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4796],"tags":[11141,5458,7672],"class_list":["post-66453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-vintage-radio","tag-grundig-elite-boy-500","tag-mark-hirst","tag-thrift-store-finds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hhP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65576,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/mark-spots-a-grundig-in-persons-of-interest\/","url_meta":{"origin":66453,"position":0},"title":"Mark spots a Grundig in Persons of Interest","author":"Thomas","date":"March 14, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Mark Hirst, who writes: I'm re-watching Person of Interest, which reappeared on Netflix recently, and spotted a Grundig radio (logo obscured) in one of the episodes. Can anyone ID this model? 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A little Googling turned up this video (part 1 of 2) showing an example in operation: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gsklRHrIeOI Click here to view Part 1 on YouTube. https:\/\/youtu.be\/l87UQk9eFwo Click here\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Attache-Case-Radio-Briefcase-1024x768.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Attache-Case-Radio-Briefcase-1024x768.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Attache-Case-Radio-Briefcase-1024x768.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":64373,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/astrad-mikado-f8-tr17-b205-mark-discovers-this-ussr-radio-at-his-local-charity-shop\/","url_meta":{"origin":66453,"position":2},"title":"Astrad &#8220;Mikado&#8221; F8-TR17-B205: Mark discovers this USSR radio at his local charity shop","author":"Thomas","date":"October 25, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Mark Hirst, who writes: This gem arrived in the charity shop where I volunteer yesterday, a radio made in the USSR (Minsk) in around 1975. It was in fantastic external condition, although after checking it out discovered that the band changing control on the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/astrad-radio.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/astrad-radio.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/astrad-radio.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/astrad-radio.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/astrad-radio.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/astrad-radio.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":56592,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/mark-spots-radios-in-the-original-hawaii-five-oh\/","url_meta":{"origin":66453,"position":3},"title":"Mark spots radios in the original &#8220;Hawaii Five Oh&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"May 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes: Thomas, I recently picked up a couple of DVD boxsets of Hawaii Five Oh from my local charity shop. 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