Vega RP 240 Russian Radio Repair 

лучший радио мастер в америке я смотрю без перевода и понимаю о чем о гововорит чинит технику со всего мира ! это его стихия его уровень очень высокий для него нет разницы где произвена и в какое время он может починить любую технику респект!!!

We are gigging here in the Free Constitutional Republic of Florida and have never stopped. We are so busy repairing guitars, banjos, mandolins, amplifiers, mixers, etc Ricky from IBM, Ret

One of the best RU-vid channels ever! Enjoyed this very much. I really want a soviet radio that has been fixed up.

The housing design is from the early 1980s but it was actually assembled in the early to mid-1991, when the USSR was on its last legs. The ICs are date-coded as 9010, October 1990. The silkscreen font like that appeared in 1987 or so. The cap on 5:59 is original to the radio, mfg date September 1990, which fits.

Early 50's Gibson guitar amplifier sitting on the floor at 16:20. Judging by the size it looks like it could be anywhere between a GA-8 through GA-20. That's a very good piece. I hope someone grabbed it and it didn't get pitched in the trash.

I used to work as a TV repairman. When I started, the senior repairman said an ESR meter is a TV repairman's best friend. I saw how you used a speaker and audio signal to teat capacitors that's ingenious

It hurt watching that repair shop video. All that old test equipment and the many remnants of ancient radios, amps etc. Looks like a proper nitty-gritty repair place and even had some space to jam, which probably could tell some stories and had some talent go through. There was an old electronics repair place in the hood that shut down 10 or 15 years ago, the old timer running it was closing up 'cause his wife was dying of cancer. He had the shop and a double garage out back full of electronics, mostly the silver-faced electronics of the 70s that I like and a bunch of tube stuff. Four aisles of it in the garage, neatly organized. I was walking the dog down the alley one afternoon and the smell of old electronics hit me. It's a very distinct smell, I'm guessing most people who are fans of this channel know it. But I smelled it probably a block away. The guy had a walk-in dumpster and was chucking tons of this stuff in there. Fortunately the guy had a buyer somewhere in the U.S that was buying a bunch of it en masse, so not of all it was going to waste. I was just getting into tube electronics at the time so I was sniffing around a bit but the whole experience I will never forget.

A sad sight, such a closed workshop.

You need to move out of California. I lived there over 60 years and never felt so free as when we drove over the state line while moving across the country. It cost over 75K to move my household and business shop but it was WELL worth it. Seriously you actually feel a physical weight lift off your body when you at last leave the extreme oppression behind.

Absolutely sickening what was needlessly done to so many small businesses . smfh

In Soviet Russia radio listens to you

That stile CCCP stile electrolytic often go bad in the end 70's and 80's stuff. I have a RFT SEG15D from the DDR early 80's that has them in the synthesizer ad they are all bad so its running on a sort of base frequency but doesn't change no matter how you put the decade controls. And that's even a military transceiver. They used them in the towers on the border with west Germany.

The OIRT FM band is very interesting and still in use in Moscow mainly from Ostankino tower, sometimes we can hear it during skip conditions in England.

THANKS FOR THE VIDEO SHANGO!!

Freakin' love this channel.

Thank you Shango0. Have a great Sunday.

👍👍nice tour of the vintage repair shop! So sad to sea such store dying like this 😑

Damned shame about your viewer friend's business. Places and businesses like that are going away quickly, unfortunately never to return. What really sucks is it's the end of an era in these types of cases, the same e=with the radio and TV shops you've shared the last 3 years or so, and others just like Hawkeye, very last of their kind, end of an era that will not pass this way again. When I see stuff like this it makes me sad. How long before folks like you Dan and myself along with the others who have aged out and passed on. Once these older people and middle-aged people like us are gone, it's truly the end of an era, not to ever be seen again. It makes me very sad and depressed. I can remember the TV repairman coming out to repair our TV's and console stereos, or do the yearly preventative maintenance, replacing high hour frequent failure vacuum tubes, the guys delivering a new TV spending time to set everything up and educate the consumer, even aligning and calibrating thr motorized roof antenna for the new TV, All gone, living in the age of throw-away garbage purchased over and over, planned obsolescence, failed caps, shorted PC boards, failed flat screen display panels. Once upon a time a TV lasted 10-15 years depending on how much you watched every day. Today, the shelf life of a TV, computer or other device is measured in months, same with automobiles. No one fixes anything or knows how to, or how to take care of stuff to make it last. Older people like us are also a dying breed, once gone never to be seen on this planet again. It makes me both very sad and depressed, longing for the simple joys of my youth growing up in the 60's and 70's again. I miss those days, even up to Y2K, but 9/11 pretty much changed the world completely overnight, and not in a good way. Your friend here is not alone. I went through something similar as well. We were able to hold on to my wife's residential and commercial cleaning business, luckily Covid supported and strengthened that type of business. However, my audio restoration business went ass-up in the midst of all the Covid BS plus the toxic political, fallout. coupled with the poor economy and horrible inflation that was to follow the election up to now. Basically, I shuttered the shop, moved everything to a home-based workshop for myself and the few clients that pop up now and then. Fortunately, we are older and can survive off my wifes business and eventually my social security will kick in and we'll be OK. Not great, simply OK enough to get by, maybe enjoy the good times, scarce as they are becoming today for people our age. Thanks for sharing this Dan. At least we all know we're not alone in this crazy effed up world we live in post 9/11 and post Covid. Peace.

Most of the times you can find a western substitute for these Soviet ICs. There are cross reference spreadsheets online. 90+% of the Soviet consumer ICs are just knockoffs of western/Japanese stuff. What did you get from that closed workshop? Any news what happened to the rest of it? I hope they sold / gave away most of it and not recycled.

Loved the walk down memory lane.So much history past.♥️

Same color inside and outside : that custard case colour is genuine !

I'm surprised you haven't found a Gilligan's Island radio yet.

It highly offends me that anyone would throw vintage gear into the dumpster. Here in europe prices for vintage test and guitar gear are several times higher than in the USA

K174PS1 = SO42 (Mixer) K174XA10 = TDA1083 (FM-IF, AM, Audio-Amp)

Pretty neat looking radio. That tuning string looks like a pain though.

Добрый день! У меня тоже есть Вега 240. Долгое время лежал без дела, не ловил станции. Припаял новый выход антены к контакту правой катушки что (входит и выходит) при поиске каналов. между проводом и антеной добавил два серых конденсатора, тоненький и по толще. Избавилс, от шумов. Ещё припаял выход аукс. к этому же контакту и к легулятору громкости.

GREAT to see another Radio make it through the years to get a new 'Go'. We have *Always had our Rights,* it's up to One to Hold On, not just Guard but *Use them.* Very Cool Photos\ Posters & Equipment ... in Shoppe! The TRUTH we've Learned - _peace to all_

i still have that 1947 Firestone Rhapsody chassis.. as many Micamold caps as you could stand to get strung out on. Such a cool cowboy font on the dial glass. sweet set to revive and stuff.. waiting for my relief check again so i can build and stock and electrify my laboratory.

Respekt !

I hope you grabbed the Heathkit IT-28 beside the Signal tracer, great capacitor tester, especially to test leakage. Greetings from Germany

Bummer about the repair shop. I hate to see that equipment go to waste. I'd take it but realize I can't take everything. Using the old equipment on the gear repair is the best. You learn more about the circuits by having to repair the repair equipment. Which is what happens when you buy the old test equipment. It didn't seem like the shop was used for quite some time. The bench trash and the old equipment doesn't make for an efficient money making work space.

I love Vega I have a lot of speakers made by vega they are not as good as radiotehnika but still they are very good.

sad to see these old repair shops close.

Is it just me or does it look like there is a loose washer inside of the speaker cone @ 4:19 ?

Since this is the latest radio vid.. I just scored. A Grundig S350 -for $7 dirty volume pot. intact antenna! works, need a tune-up. Great radio.

Lifetime of stuff in that store

Wow very sad to see that stuff just go

Most tube guitar amps are still pretty valuable. Hopefully those all found good homes.

These epoxied bottom CCCP caps have the tendency to go off like rockets on failure.

That german receiver was probably a Grundig Majestic from late 50's or early 60's or something like that. It had that 4 freq eq called Wünschklang which showed the frequency response curve using a rubber band. A very nice but sad video. I recognized many very familiar things and devices.

You need a t-shirt with your interesting words Just enjoy them

I love those push button switches. Hell for stout! Great twebulation. Hope I spelled that right.😃

I think it'd be interesting to see what you managed to rescue from the repair shop / studio.... can we have an update video about what gear you managed to pick up? Also, can't wait to see more of the soviet era radios you were shipped from ebay. Keep up the great work

Wonderful vídeo! Congratulations.

Volume Control on the back, very interesting!

1990 date codes on the capacitor and speaker.

Is there an UNCOOL music studio? No. Very cool shots of the studio.

14:42 ish I'd have grabbed the reel to reel tape, who knows what rare recordings could be on it. It makes me want to cry thinking that all that vintage equipment and photograph went to the tip. :(

The electronic shop opportunity sparkulated a couple of clogulated memory cells, in the 80's I bought out the entire shop of a satellite guy for $300 ! It had to go immediatly with only a chevette to move it, the car was never the same.

@8:15 Soviet bug transmitting back to Putin?

rototwebulating old radios is always fun. I have a romanian Gloria radio that needs some rototorqulating around the if stage. Has now bad sensitivity and selectivity .

I’ll bet the bass on this bad boy is amazing! Got a lot of junk in the guts for what it looks like

Well, at least we got to hear a little Zeppelin. :)

Tuner string used to break on many of those Vega radios.

I hope the guitar amplifiers at the end and the equipment got saved.

Sad to think the years of work to establish a music tech shop and then along comes Covid and all is gone and never to be replaced.

Hope you took that Firestone radio I at least have never seen one. Sad and common story regarding that place. 8:12 sounds like something my Channel Master 3 band radio picked up.

Interesting set! I've never seen a small radio like that with slug tuning like old car radios. I wonder if restringing with better dial cord would help with tuning. Great video! Thanks!

whoa!!! is niiice!!!

Thats cool

8:11 Not impressed with Skrillex's latest ;) Some wonderful stuff in that rehearsal studio/workshop. I could have filled a van :)

8:15-that's probably your houses electric smart meter sending/receiving info. Get weird stuff like that all the time since they were installed here a few years back.........

Hey 👋 Shango066!! Please buy this place. That will save it from going defunct. Your friend, Jeff.

№1. Six months ago, "this radio is built like a Russian tank". Now "the build quality of this radio FAR exceeds the post-Soviet Military Standard/Specification". №2. "Radio presets are set to "The Buzzer", and your favorite 'numbers' station.

More often than not those OIRT-radios can be converted to 88-108 FM very easily. Sometimes it's just like "take off two turns of coil L4 and realign".

That sound that you heard at 8:16 I've been hearing it on my radio here in MN also I have a radio shack multi band radio and sometimes I hear it on all bands so I'm not sure what it is probably some kind of radio jammer

It's really sad. All of the small business that were doing enough to keep their doors open that now are no more because of the stupidity of covid.

Date code on ICs and the old capacitor says 1990.

This receiver likely came off of the assembly line shortly before the final thaw of the Cold War. (Back then, I thought I'd be radioactive ash by now.)

I have a radio...that go all the way down to 25mhz.....all the way to the fm band....i would use that to get other stuff in the 60 to 75mhz ...FM DX from Japan and Russia... also...30 to 50mhz range...that radio may get Harmonics from the 30 to 50mhz my Sony ICF 2003 gets FM on the 70-90mhz range ....that is why Radios that tune above 30mhz is fun

Soviet response to Reaganomics

On the topic of dead IC's, my clock radio 8 track set needs a new clock IC. Really wish they used a heatsink on it as it runs on 24v and kicks out a fair chunk of heat. So after 40+ years the digital clock is all glitched and goofy looking 😒. The radio still works great tho.

The back claims it uses LR6 batteries, which is the IEC notation for alkaline AA. The USSR A316 type also listed appears to be the same as AA. Did you try alkalines? Sometimes Ni-MH are a bit on the large side.

Never lost my freedom and never will

Really sad to see that whole shop going under like that and all that stuff going in the trash Hope they let you salvage some stuff.

That Chip in the front end might be a SO42P soviet version.

18:17..18:22 Looks like a 4x12" Marshall cabinet..

Wouldn’t that be summin’ 2 c Shango beating up AA batteries !

seem to remember using a TDA2593 in place of the K174-XXX. would need to go through my old nots.

God, there are terrible times ahead.

Good morning!

Very nice

The capacitors were made in Bulgaria

The owner of that store may have actually played it wrong. The shop I work at got super busy just following the initial lock downs of COVID. A lot of people drug out their old gear and wanted it fixed up. We still are busy.

damn , if I lived closer I'd be all over those musical items

I had a red one of these radios years ago. I concur, it was almost impossible to tune, due to the crappy dial design. The plastic dial base broke after a while and I just scrapped the whole thing.

Since the studio owner may still be here, did you live in Austin for a while? Spotted the Antone's and SRV posters. (I left there in '83.) Sorry C19 got your business like so many others. Good luck.

Great video, sad about the cancel culture on that stdio /repair station shop. Amazes me that the owner had that insight to get out of Dodge

When I was a kid, the US custom service prohibit importation any goods from Communist block including Red China and Wausau pacts countries. I have never see Radio or TV or components made by Russian company. What is a quality rating of electronics components made in Russia or the sattleite state compares to CCP China that we gave the job anf let them took over our country?

The loudspeaker seems to be failed too...

That awful buzzing sounds like the 'Buzzer' over the horizon radar...from Russia.

Something about the tension spring on the tuning dial string doesn't look right...

Your images you getting on FM is bleed though as you close to FM towers. 4 Meters is used in UK as ham band on narrow FM. Some of eastern Europe & Russia still uses 64 MHz -108 MHz as broadcast band. Japan uses 76 MHz-95 MHz which is strange but their tuners now go up to 108 MHz.

Is that custard-yellow colour original or was it once white that decayed? The styling of the radio is not so bad. Maybe someone can advise whether the frequency range on FM can be shifted somewhat.

Looks like 👍 it’s a Beza PN-240, and I also see “Haktponka”. This radio 📻 is probably Russian 🇷🇺. Your friend, Jeff.

I was thinking a GE radio too! That radio looks less Communist and more Capitalist wearing Communist clothing.

...He Who Dies With The Most Radios Wins

Rototweebulate is an engineering term I need to use when fixing equipment at work.

I took a part an electronic item that was made in Russia and it used a double A battery pack. It's been awhile and I can't remember I'm getting ready to reassemble. I was hoping someone could tell me, there's a red wire and a blue wire. Which one is the positive and which one is the negative? Thanks a lot.

Nice! 1980's look all the way, even in the CCCP. And dang at 3:36 that's some chunky soldering work. It must have a couple of ounces of it there. It really is built like a tank. From all the old Soviet electronics you have shown they look to be high quality and way overengineered. Well, except this one. I guess Western cost cutting infiltrated the Soviet Union by then. And Hoooooly crap! 19:16 the Video 22 sticker! That channel was all over the place with programming back then, channel 22 KWHY. Showing the stock market news in the morning to 3 PM then music videos from 3 to 6 then Spanish programming. Man, I'm dating myself, in the very early 80's channel 22 used to be a station for Select-TV, (a Los Angeles over the air paid TV service that used a descrambler box) and on Saturdays after 11 PM they used to show soft core porn. As a 9-year-old I was very titillated and found out that a 5" B/W Panasonic TV picked up the scrambled signals better than the main TV. KHJ channel 9 also used to show a sweet music video show back then. Video ONE.