Box Of Soviet Radios From Ukraine and MAYAK 2 Soviet Military Radio 

Thanks for the translation 👍

I found a mistake, it was written: в / ч 31404 or Воинская часть 31404 - Military unit 31404. You can find photos of soldiers on the Internet.

Thanks for the translation.

Дебил а кто ему то угрожает? Ну не бери в руки оружие и ничего тебе не будет! Если ты не фашист!

Yeah, a ton of Ukrainians are full blown nazis.

That one has so much use and was very difficult to get in good working order

@@shango066 I am certain that Capt. Primachenko burned even more radios while he was stationed in Kamchatka :)

Horrific what is happening in Ukraine 🇺🇦, much less Odessa.

Posted unboxing video

Soviet sets have a great IF strip - that 3 transformer preselector does it.

The K2ЖА242 is still available. Lots of them on Russian auctions for pennies, surely must be some in Ukraine.

sir, you are going to have to pull over, you waaay too funny!

Soon will be selling used Russian military hardware.

@@KameraShy hmm sadly you're probably correct about that. That is ofcourse assuming it all still works and hasn't been totally trashed or looted by people. Sad thing is, there'll be people who'll want to buy the stuff for souvenir value so I'd question if its right to create a market for it for that reason. In the case of the ebay seller selling radios to make what he can, let's hope that something good can come from this mess soon

That means that, under the right circumstances and with the proper modifications (few if any), an old Soviet radio could be used to pick up the audio output from a North American VCR or DTV converter box since their RF output is on Channel 3 or Channel 4. In the Era when those radios were new, they could have picked up US TV stations on those channels.

In my area (Ukraine) there is only one Radio station there

When I was in Kiev in 2019 there were quite a few OIRT FM stations still around though I was 28 floors up in a hotel when I tuned around on a XH data D 808...

Recently here in Brazil, the frequency of channel 5-6 VHF (76-87 MHz) was reallocated to FM. It called "extended FM track". Most AM stations is in a process of reallocation to FM, unfortunately. But some stations still broadcasting in AM and 3 or 4 in SW.

Japan uses 76-95 mhz for FM, with most AM stations booting up to 90-95 mhz. Many US AM stations also have low power FM relays or translators.

Red star you mean.

@@hestheMaster that too. The only thing I have to complain about is the quality of the plastic case, it's a bit brittle....but as far as the overall construction goes it is first class. One thing I noticed is Russian Radios were designed to be repaired and serviced if the need arises. They better ones were expected to last the as long as the life of the owner I think. Too bad we don't build things like they did back then.

As usual, well done!

Yep, tape recorder with rec/pb switch... The inductors may be part of some filter or motor driver curcuit, who knows.

coils may be part of the erase\bias oscillator

@Darren Smith,Cool profile photo! The Saint is a great show. There’s a gentleman in his late 60’s locally who drives around a white Volvo P1800 with “the saint” logos on it. I talked to the owner in the parking lot once and got to see the car up close. he told me the sad thing is most people don’t know what “The Saint” is anymore,that every now and then someone will inquire about the log and give off blank stares when he explains its a television starring Roger Moore (now Sir Roger Moore). Maybe it will cause them to search out episodes or the show and they will become fans though. Many of those 1960’s British shows were also popular in America in the 60’s.

@@Suddenlyits1960 I used to watch The Saint with my Grandma back in the late 60s early 70s as she Loves Roger Moore. Being along time fan of Rogers i bought the whole series on DVD and thougroly enjoyed it.

@@darrensmith6999 Thanks for sharing your memories. It’s moments like that we cherish for the rest of our lives. There were so many great shows in the 50’s,60’s and 70’s. Thankfully most were preserved for posterity on film so we can revisit them and that era again. I plan on buying the set too.

Yes. 300/(frequency in MHz) gave wavelenght in meters.

I have seen UKW on my old Seimens radio/tv phono unit as well as a greutz without looking at it, is probably the wrong spelling on the last one. I did see the german translation of UKW but cant remember it.

@@steviebboy69 UKW=Ultrakurzwelle

@@matthiase.1747 Thanks I know I could have googled but was feeling lazy, I looked on the dial it also said Lang, Mittel and Kurz, and this old german radiogram gets FM in stereo or well it did last time i tried but its a different range, and not to forget the telly that is there as well.

In Russian it is wave is volnye I think, a transliteration from Cyrillic to roman alphabets.

Welle is wave in German and volnye in Russian. Vag in swedish.

That makes sense. If you do the calculations, 4.1m to 4.5m equates to 73.17MHz to 66.67MHz.

I was wondering about the cassette recorder thing as well, maybe that is what that long switch thing was on the board when operated it goes into recording mode.

I just keep watching him. Excellent tech man!

I should note that the mil-spec Clarostat tuning pot fixed the jumpy tuning...but now the dial calibration is garbage. Need to translate how to align it and recalibrate the dial calibration.

Маяк-2, Маяк-М, Интеграл - "приемники замполита". Предназначены для прослушивания (возможно, трансляции) радиопередач для идеологического воспитания военнослужащих. В отличии от вещательных гражданских приемников СССР имеют дневные коротковолновые диапазоны короче 19 метров (в вещательных самый короткий - 25 метров.)

@@pipespb Модели созданы на основе серийных приёмников "Геолог" и "Орион"

@@dummy_chan8086 Да. Геолог -> Маяк-М (без УКВ ЧМ), Орион -> Маяк-2. А вот из чего построен огромный чемоданный многошкальный "Интеграл"?..

@@pipespb Радиоприемник Маяк-2 выпускался по заказу Министерства обороны СССР, предназначен для нужд политработников, а также для обеспечения быта военнослужащих. В войсках радиоприемники Маяк-2 встречались не часто, но как оказалось при развале СССР, что огромное количество радиоприемников Маяк-2, Маяк-М, Маяк лежало на складах длительного хранения, на складах ГСВГ были редкие модификации Маяк-2 с диапазоном УКВ 88-106 МГц, именно на этих частотах велось УКВ вещание в ГДР, в том числе и для ГСВГ. Явно это было общесоюзное идиотское решение очередного Держиморды, эти радиоприемники при длительном хранении теряют работоспособность, окисляются контакты переключателей П2К, конденсаторы стоят самые тривиальные К10-7В, К50-16, теряют емкость при хранении, примененные гибридные микросхемы 237-й серии не отличаются живучестью, это хорошо знают владельцы Жигулей, 24-х Волг, Москвичей «люкс», в которых ставили автоприемники А-271, А-275, собранные на тех-же микросхемах. Вызывает искреннее недоумение ширпотребовский телефон ТМ-4, не удосужились даже гнездо поставить для подключения армейских 50-ти омных телефонов ТА-56м. Сдается, что убрали на хранение Маяки не зря, а чтобы скрыть чью-то аферу, на складах надежность и долговечность не проверить. Собственно радиоприемник Маяк-2 это модификация бытового гражданского радиоприемника Геолог-2 относящемуся ко 2-му классу, который выпускался тем-же Днепропетровским радиозаводом параллельно, на одних платах, разница в диапазонах коротких волн, шкалах, шильдиках. Войсковые радиоприемники Маяк, Маяк-М, также имеют гражданские модификации Геолог и Орион-301, относящиеся к 3-му классу. Радиоприемник Маяк-2 очень не плох как бытовой, туристический, но на войсковой не тянет, ему по надежности далеко до знаменитой рязанской «Синички» МП-64, полевого радиоприемника политработника, который собран на 13 транзисторах, имеет галетный переключатель диапазонов, прочный карболитовый корпус, монтаж залит компаундом, сохраняет работоспособность десятилетиями, независимо от условий хранения.

@@dummy_chan8086 А ТМ-4 - это чтобы замполит тайно мог одним ухом слушать вражьи голоса, а другим вещать политику Партии солдатам. Себе я купил Маяк-2, Интеграл (этот даже в заводском ящике) скорее для коллекции...

"Oh and I think the USSR used a different FM stereo modulation." Yes they used polarized modulation instead of FCC multiplex. But any other eastern block countries used standard FCC multiplex, so export versions were fine, sometimes also with standard FM band.

Героям Слава!

This is a 80s radio. Those transistors have no problem to work even above FM band.

You would be correct. Very good intuition! It’s actually “ykb”, which is literally “VHF” in English.

Thank you.

Sometimes you also have to reduce inductance of the coils by removing 1 turn (whole coil has usually 4-7 turns).

@@xsc1000 Yes your right, odd how i forgot. And trying to get the range and in the right place on the scale could be touchy at such a high frequency. I think i need a good slap lol.

@@zx8401ztv I always did it with second radio to check right frequency. Russian radios are more tricky, because they were not designed to receive CCIR band. Some old ones tuned by coils cannot be modified. Radios from eastern Germany or western radios exported to eastern block are much easier, they were designed for CCIR and just modified for OIRT (usually by adding capacitors). Tesla from Czechoslovakia made radios for both standards from 70s - with bandswitch or with continuous tunning from 64 to 104 MHz (old CCIR standard was 88-104).

Most of USSR radios had a FM (OIRT) scale in meters.

@@MikhailKulkov Till 70s, in 80s they changed it to MHz.