VEF Spidola 10 USSR Radio 

ПР is short for ПРОИГРЫВАТЕЛЬ in Russian. That's turntable in English. It means that the radio works as the amplifier of a signal from a turntable.

This radio is made in Latvia in Riga the VEF factory I am Latvian

The Chinese music @ 21 minutes is a Chicom shortwave jammer. It's known as the 'firedrake'

Soviet era latvian made radio, nice one too. Made since 1963. СВ stands for "Средние волны" that means Medium Wave and ДВ stands for "Длинные волны" that means Long Wave. There has been at least one "dissident" criminal case in Soviet Union, that involved confiscation of that type of radio as "instrument of crime". 67 on a pot is a year code for 1967.

That was a very generous gift. Thanks for giving it to shango and shango thank you for the last 4 EXCELLENT videos. Man you are good sir.

I only once seen a turret tuner in a radio in all my life of playing with radios and TV's. It was a German made one, with all German writing on it and sadly I do not remember the make of it because of that. I found it at a yard sale for 50 cents back when I was 9 years old and It was a multi-bander, like this one only a bit larger in size. It was very much the same shape and layout as the one shown and also It was a solid state one as well from the early 60's. The latest date I could find on the Transistors was 1964 and the earliest was 1962 and it had no circuit board in it at all. It was all point to point connections just like in a tube chassis but in a really neat looking 3d layout. I wished I had not given it away at this time but at least it was to a friend that wanted it for a fathers day gift for his dad that wanted it for his hunting camp. He was a ham radio operator that not only loved the gift but still has it till this day. I could get it back but there is an ethics issue on why I will never ask. but it is still working till this very day and still sounds great. I wished they still made stuff like this today instead of all this cheap throw away crap they do today, that's only just draining our precious resources. Some of which are non-renewable. But it's polluting our environment just for corporate capitalist selfish fiscal gain. that only cares about having money for assets for no other reason other than to just to show off and brag to everybody that they have it, and that makes me better then you!!!.

Very interesting to see how the Soviets made their radios back in the 70's. The radio looks well made, and built to last. In general, radios from the late 60's to 70's were made better.

Beautiful Electronic Art. The speakers were fantastic for the time. And lets face it it Still Works . Thanks for the Video. May I Wish You a Very Happy Christmas, and a Happy New Year.

In Soviet Russia the VEF Spidola 10 listens to you!

ПР means radio acts from aux sound source. Not reciever in that position.

You Sir are an awesome repair tech I'm sure you have your battles with a few here and there, but for the most part your not afraid to dive into nothing with a circuit board.... Very cool 😎

Extremely cool radio, man if I got my hands on one of those, I would spend weeks getting everything back to original, cleaned to the max, all epoxied back together, all clear plastic polished till it looked like glass then coated with clear lacquer, yes indeed a real lovely radio, and installing lipo's just makes a lot of sense. Personally I have around 50 extra cells recovered from bad laptop batteries, I find when I tear them down and test the cells, usually only one is bad, the rest are very healthy. Thanks for the wonderful videos, I have been watching all your stuff for the past couple weeks you see, I am an old fart and disabled to the point where the most I can do is sit on my ass and play with a laptop, or perhaps build an arduino project, things like that, so I use these type videos to add to my knowledge collection. Hell by the time I die, I may even be smart!

it's cool watching you get an old partially apart radio working. That's just COOL! I bet that be fun camping out and finding one and getting it receiving. I hated to see this one end. Really neat video. Thank you.

That's awesome! That's gotta be a keeper radio. And this is the first time I've ever heard a song made with a squeaky toy and pots and pans.

Very cool! Like the way it's built too. I was expecting Khrushchev, but what you got was even better; the sound of unicorns being tortured!

The tuning string and tension spring crossing right in front of the speaker!! HAHA

Very cool radio. Built like a darn tank. Fun to watch. Thanks Carl

I had one of these radio many years ago it was a powerful radio. Thank you for your wonderful video's you post

I miss shortwave, specially the time announcement. Brings back childhood memories & I use to use the time announcement to put my son to sleep when he was a baby. Not long after that, Australia ceased shortwave! :(

I had 2 or 3 of these radios, found cheap in fleamarkets, Sadly, I sold them all because of lack of storage space.

Very different and interesting. I figured you'd get it operating too. Thanks for this one.

I’m from USSR. I have not this radio in my collection 😄 But You have.

I think it's neat how you get all this old stuff working.

I had one just like that and it was made in late 1966. They're great and very sensitive. I gave it to a friend who was interested in getting a ham license.

MY DAD GOT ME ONE OF THESE IN 1969.IT LASTED FOR YEARS.I'M 67 NOW BUT THE VEF RADIO HAS LONG SINCE GONE.I GOT THE VHF ONE LATER WITH THE OTHER MED WAVE BANDS ALSO AND NOW NEXT DOORS HAVE IT AND IT STILL WORKS.

it sounds good for such an old messed up radio

Shango the Mr. Fix it. You're great man

''Uzmanību, runā Rīga. Klausieties ziņu pārraidi!''

That radio is just too cool!

I am very surprised that the radio didn't need a handful of bad capacitors replaced. Which is not a surprise in any radio of this age. This thing was left with batteries in. I suppose that 'D' cells would have lasted so long you forgot about them? The next thing you know they look like rotted fruit. Particularly if you used the cheapest batteries you could find. In the UK that was the Flying Bomb brand. They leaked even when they still had good voltage! Made Dura-leak look good.

En México se fabricó como el DeVal 10 TR, un excelente radio para onda corta. In Mexico, it was manufactured as the DeVal 10 TR, an excellent radio for short wave, I had one. В Мексике он был изготовлен как DeVal 10 TR, отличное радио для короткой волны, у меня был один

Number 1 All Time Favorite shango066 Video!

You "must" get this radio working comrade, we don't have much time !!

21:10 I think you might have found the the Voice of America in Chinese of 31m, with the Chinese government providing their own alternative programme. Yeah, the Chinese are still up to the same shenanigans that the Soviets were up to. It's a super cool radio just going by the description, never mind anything else.

A shot of vodka in the volume pot and she work great mate YEAH! Hahaha

great radio - a fantastic gift

that's from 1966-67'? It's more than 50 years old. It's older than the flight to the Moon.

Im impressed...wow you got it going..

Muito bom e aida sintoniza as ondas curtas! Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil

love them parting comments, love the nuke proof radio too...think you could get a bigger knife for ceremonial tape cutting?

Nice Knife....cheers.

In the early 1970's I believe Sony or Panasonic put out an AM/FM shortwave radio with a vertical turret. As one turned the selector knob the different frequency ranges would appear on the screen. My aunt had one. Does anyone know anything about it?

I had a sound design boombox around 983 & the speakers whent out So I put some realistic 4 inch home stereo speakers in it & it sounded just great.

They do not skimp on solder...I like that! Very nice radio with a good sound! The "music" on the 31M band might be associated with pure opium!

Royal mail is always expensive, next time you buy from a EU person, have him shipping through interparcel, he gets quotes to ship cheaper.

I remember picking up scrambled programming from Russia on shortwave back in the 80s, it was a continuous lower pitched laser sound.

Transistors made by Svetlana factory, in Leningrad(St Petersburg).

Dang , that thing preforms better than a Zenith !

Maybe you could do a vid of an if alignment on it and really get it to perform .

Cool radio. I was wondering how much you would charge to fix my old all tube radio?

300 divided by meters= Frequency in MHz. I think. I need to learn how you can listen to longwave on a short antenna. Is it like Quarter Wave?

Thank you for this video view of another era, and from another world. BTW, I've had excellent luck in removing corrosion from both (older) plastic and plated metal when using Lestoil/water in a 50/50 concentration. Hardware stores are the only locales which carry it anymore, and most of the time, persons younger than 50 look at you like you have three eyes and a 1950's TV antenna sticking out of your head - when inquiring about it's availability. Could he have been assessed VAT when paying for the post to the USA??

merry christmas shango

I was going to say it's an absolute shed until I read your description there, did this thing actually unscramble a signal for dissected communists? Ok, some really weird transmissions around 21:57, I think you picked up et right there lol

You fixed it on your front walk 👍

Really cool radio, kind of wish I had one like that, but now days there isn't much on short wave anyhow I guess. I do have a nice SONY multi-band that works great, and my little Grundig almost pocket digital tuned radio with AM/FM/SW*3 that works great, never listen to them anymore, but I guess I do have them, probably as much as you have listened to the Russian set you had here in the last 5 years.

I once owned a Spidola 250, technically almost the same other than the cabinet, it has the dial on top. The same rotary band selector and FM. Basically, these radios were fine pieces of good old craftmanship. However, quality control was something the former USSR had not in their dictionary. So getting a good one was a gamble. It all depended on the moods of the workforce. Mine died, no parts available, I still have it though. It is yours if you pay for the shipment. The VEF you have was for the domestic Sovjet market only. The export units all had FM, European and USA frequencies other than the standard USSR low frequency FM frequencies. These radios originated from the country you got it from, nowadays sovereign states, The Baltics.

That pulley system is so cool haha

At 20:41, I think that was Yoko ono.s greatest hits

That knife is very appropriate for a russian radio

LW is 150-400khz where I live it is Tibet and China ....MW is 510-1600khz... Japan Australia...Korea.... also Canada and USA and Mexico too...At Night....740 is KCBS San Francisco and 1070 is KNX Los Angeles California.....Comes In At Night... when we have a Cold Spell...it is almost a Local... Australia is on 1017 and 1215khz.. with my Bose Austrian Made.Tuner...it can beat my Sangean 909x... even if it is 10khz stepped...

I see you actually got something on LW. I knew US doesn't use this band, so I guess the stations you picked up might be offshore.

I love it

I Remember I Had A Radio Like That With One Of The Coil Wires That Came Un Soldered Then All I Had To Do Is Solder The Copper Wire Back On. So I Checked The Other 2 Wires The Green Wire & The Black Wire. They Wh'er Good.

I had a couple of radios by what looks like the same manufacturer back in the 70's when I was a short wave listener. They were badged VEGA for the UK market, good radios, built like a battleship and a great price!, loved the turret bandchanger on those sets. - The station you refered to was probably Radio Australia, do the BBC still transmit on Short Wave? not sure but probably not!

I must admit I was a little surprised when you turned it on and we heard English language broadcasts. For some strange reason I expected it to receive in Russian 😉

It is 10mhz...WWV Fort Collins USA....at the tone ....etc.... Great Radio

Nice Soviet shortwave radio receiver!

I used to listen to VOA all the time. They had better news than the U.S. Networks!

I can almost guarantee that radio never heard a spanish word ever...............till now.

Хорошее радио вам досталось.

Nice radios...when they work! I have 2 similar but different 'rounded edged' case, the power switch was dodgy on both mine so maybe common problem.

Nice radio !!!

21:11 Is that firedrake Chinese radio blocker?

interesting find. be fun to play with.

the VEF radios were made in latvia, not russia!

The speaker looks very solid, I bet they need it to get the full amount of bass when playing Narkotik Kal.

I think I have a ferrite antenna that's similar. Want me to send it?

21:11 - A Firedrake Jammer appears

friend gave me one like this but it had someone inside before and it was missing pieces inside. it was made in baltics during sssr occupation. I'm in baltics too

United forever in friendship and labor our mighty republics will ever endure the great Soviet Union will live through the ages long live our soviet motherland built by the people's mighty hand

Think I heard the mating call of a Dolphin.🔌🔨

I get screwed being north of the border on shipping so badly it's unreal. Throw in the great global shipping ebay program and not only do I get to pay extravagant amounts but my items often end up abused or broken. What a bonus!

shango066 23:09 is time signal station WWV Fort Collins, Colorado, and WWVH Kekaha, Hawaii

📻👍

Iron curton, radio free Europe

I wouldn't mind having an old Soviet radio receiver.

Remember that scene from dumb and dumber about the most annoying sound in the world? Go to about 20 minutes mark

21:34 The Chinese Firedrake jammer. www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Chinese_Firedrake_Jammer That variant of VEF Spidola looks to be from the mid-1960s, 1966-67.

That's not a knife!

I repair this radio in 1975

Don't contaminate it with CNN.

Hey why are my pots and pans dented ?21:12

I would translate the wave labels as C=S=short, A thing=D=distal=long. And the B is a V for some reason.

That's was a strange radio stations you find

+ytrewq6789 Was it a Grundig Satellit 2000?

If the RU-vid copy rite flagged you on that one thing with all the high pitched stuff going on they gotta wild taste of music haha 😂

Lytz wire on the antenna,stuff a pain to fix.

I wonder has someone snaffled one of the tuning biscuits as this is not normal there should be 8 tuner biscuits and I wonder where that missing biscuit went, was the missing biscuit confiscated from the person who owned it so the owner could not listen to VOA.

It is amazing that giant radio can be powered by that dinky 9 volt battery!