Old memories with the tank radio. During my NVA duty I was in charge of high level repairs on these beasts. We repaired pretty much everything except the gas filled tuning unit which scale has been photograpically manufactured. You gonna need the PSU though. It has alot of rails.
Yes I know that, the friend i got it from has it but says one transistor keeps failing. next time i meet him i might get it, i dont know if i will be able to get it running or just scrap it. ah NVA i got some of my soviet tubes from their surplus
@janno288 yeah there are some beefy germanium power transistors in the PSU. NVA yeah that was a long time ago. I escaped east Germany in 1988 and live ever since in Canada. Only the memories remain...
@@LutzSchafer I keep buying old east german surplus because its readily avaliable for little money since people want to get rid of it, I have a box full of old transfomers and a box full of analog maters, a box full of power resistors, a box full of potentiometers and a lot of other stuff. I've had no complaints so far about the quality, the resistors, especially the smaller ones dont mechanically break like the west german ones after sitting for half a century. I can definitly say that the people who worked in that industry mustve felt pride in their work. I live in the Western part of germany and in School we have a Power supply that was made in the former GDR with czechoslovak transistors, i verified if it was still according to its spec, if was dead on accurate. The transformers i gor, most of them are UI core, probably due to resource shortages. and my biggest one feels lighter than it should, so the proper materials were missing, but it is still impressive what the east german people did achieve in 40 years, rebuilding the country, paying off debt to the USSR and becomming the eastern bloc nation with the highest Standard of living. I guess you can say I have a fascination in the old eastern bloc. Not as an example to be emulated but from something we can learn from for the future. Something to be studied. Thank you for sharing your Story, i didnt think i would ever have the chance to speak to someone who has lived through these times and escaped to the west. What made you want to goto canada?
@janno288 Dear Janno, thank you for being so thoughtful. My story is a long one. Born in Saxony and raised during the heights of the cold war. My dad left to the west when I was half a year old in 1961 and immigrated to Canada a year later. Likely due to this loss I developed at very early age a huge interest in electronics. In grade 1 I built a short wave transmitter followed by many other projects that eventually led to the profession of an electronics engineer. Studied in Goerlitz and worked at Robotron for the design of the Eastern worlds first hard drive. I was responsible for the head positioning and the RF read/write system on a 16 inch platter drive. Work was interesting but also limiting. Since you're asking: I always wanted to live in Canada because since childhood I knew that my father in all wrong doing when leaving the family, he did something right that could be understood when one is not able to travel. His reasons of cause were vastly different, considering that he was for the greater part of ww2 in Canada. Anyway after I got bought out from the west German government, it was logical to join my dad. Due to lives circumstances I found work in a different field, for a German company 😆 here. I still cherish the memories from analog circuit design and run a small lab.
So the geared knob on the front of the tank radio is a gas filled tuning capacitor? How is it sealed? Surely the gas will leak out from the seals around the shaft for the rotating vanes?
Well I didnt buy it i was given it from a friend. What I found is that you have to join communities about this stuff, there are people who have stuff like this from work or they live in eastern europe and are happy to share some of their stuff. Ebay and other such websites are also a good resource
@@JudlexAlternate You join electronics discord servers and talk to people, or facebook groups or whatever, you are bound to find people who know the right people. In eastern europe there are loads of crazy people. I was in that exact Situation to. I got all my friends and stuff in 2 years time.
Scrapping such collector item is the most stupid thing I have ever heard... it's like getting a Jaguar from a JB movie and saying you will cut it in pieces to install an EV motor...
Excellent haul! Merry Christmas!
Hey we have come full circle now!
Do you rememer me from the Chinse CRT TV Kit problems discussion?
merry christmas to you too!
@@janno288of course I remember! All the best!
@@RetroTechorDie I thank you for your Video, that really got me into electronics
Old memories with the tank radio. During my NVA duty I was in charge of high level repairs on these beasts. We repaired pretty much everything except the gas filled tuning unit which scale has been photograpically manufactured. You gonna need the PSU though. It has alot of rails.
Yes I know that, the friend i got it from has it but says one transistor keeps failing. next time i meet him i might get it, i dont know if i will be able to get it running or just scrap it.
ah NVA i got some of my soviet tubes from their surplus
@janno288 yeah there are some beefy germanium power transistors in the PSU. NVA yeah that was a long time ago. I escaped east Germany in 1988 and live ever since in Canada. Only the memories remain...
@@LutzSchafer I keep buying old east german surplus because its readily avaliable for little money since people want to get rid of it, I have a box full of old transfomers and a box full of analog maters, a box full of power resistors, a box full of potentiometers and a lot of other stuff.
I've had no complaints so far about the quality, the resistors, especially the smaller ones dont mechanically break like the west german ones after sitting for half a century.
I can definitly say that the people who worked in that industry mustve felt pride in their work.
I live in the Western part of germany and in School we have a Power supply that was made in the former GDR with czechoslovak transistors, i verified if it was still according to its spec, if was dead on accurate.
The transformers i gor, most of them are UI core, probably due to resource shortages. and my biggest one feels lighter than it should, so the proper materials were missing, but it is still impressive what the east german people did achieve in 40 years, rebuilding the country, paying off debt to the USSR and becomming the eastern bloc nation with the highest Standard of living.
I guess you can say I have a fascination in the old eastern bloc.
Not as an example to be emulated but from something we can learn from for the future. Something to be studied.
Thank you for sharing your Story, i didnt think i would ever have the chance to speak to someone who has lived through these times and escaped to the west.
What made you want to goto canada?
@janno288 Dear Janno, thank you for being so thoughtful. My story is a long one. Born in Saxony and raised during the heights of the cold war. My dad left to the west when I was half a year old in 1961 and immigrated to Canada a year later. Likely due to this loss I developed at very early age a huge interest in electronics. In grade 1 I built a short wave transmitter followed by many other projects that eventually led to the profession of an electronics engineer. Studied in Goerlitz and worked at Robotron for the design of the Eastern worlds first hard drive. I was responsible for the head positioning and the RF read/write system on a 16 inch platter drive. Work was interesting but also limiting. Since you're asking: I always wanted to live in Canada because since childhood I knew that my father in all wrong doing when leaving the family, he did something right that could be understood when one is not able to travel. His reasons of cause were vastly different, considering that he was for the greater part of ww2 in Canada.
Anyway after I got bought out from the west German government, it was logical to join my dad. Due to lives circumstances I found work in a different field, for a German company 😆 here. I still cherish the memories from analog circuit design and run a small lab.
So the geared knob on the front of the tank radio is a gas filled tuning capacitor?
How is it sealed? Surely the gas will leak out from the seals around the shaft for the rotating vanes?
Old vacuum😍
Soviet tank radio caught me offguard lol
🎅🏼🎄
I need better friends...
@@TheAlchaemist hahaha.
I too think that sometimes
Where do you buy gold like this
Well I didnt buy it i was given it from a friend.
What I found is that you have to join communities about this stuff, there are people who have stuff like this from work or they live in eastern europe and are happy to share some of their stuff.
Ebay and other such websites are also a good resource
@@janno288 In poland how could i find it
@@JudlexAlternate "depends where you live, in warsaw theres wolumen
in other cities idk, u mostly go off knowing the right ppl"
- my polish friend
@@janno288 no idea how i find the right people lol
@@JudlexAlternate You join electronics discord servers and talk to people, or facebook groups or whatever, you are bound to find people who know the right people.
In eastern europe there are loads of crazy people.
I was in that exact Situation to.
I got all my friends and stuff in 2 years time.
why do I feel like you stole the radio from a soviet tank in russian army storage somewhere
@@santherstat I just got it from a friend, i dont know where he got it from
that is still a perfectly legit way to obtain it... better in collector's hands than in Ukraine...
Scrapping such collector item is the most stupid thing I have ever heard... it's like getting a Jaguar from a JB movie and saying you will cut it in pieces to install an EV motor...
I dont know, I havent decided yet.
but these arent even rare at all since the soviets kept producing that same model for decades.