Я в шоке, американец возится с этим динозавром и доволен как слон, в то время как совсем зажравшиеся русские совсем не ценят прошлое. Это о многом говорит. Спасибо за позитивное видео!!!
Long Wave is certainly used here in the UK. Our BBC Radio 4 is transmitted at huge power, still on a 1930's transmitter from Daventry, on 198Khz. It is one of our UK frequency standards. Richard (UK)
Nothing like some Herb Alpert " RISE" while you were doing the diagnosis. Loved that touch.. I love watching your vids.. You actually got me wanting to start tinkering with transistor radios...
My grandfather has a radio like this. Bought it new in the early 80s. A couple of years later he placed it on the top of his car (Fiat 124) so he can listen to music while working in the garden. After a while he needed to use the car for something and forgot to take the radio off. He ran it over while it was still working. And it was working after that, although it was a bit squished. It still works to this day. This radio is a TANK!! :D
This is cool. Love odd old radios. Longwave is still very much alive in europe. I was recently listening on an SDR in england and the longwave band was packed with stations.
It's dead in Australia as well but before the NDB transmitters for the airports were turned off, we used to be able to listen to Morse code idents from everywhere at night! However, we've never had broadcasting stations on there. May be now they're off, I should try to DX the European broadcasts haha!
I have a few of these. First you do-change an electrolytic capacitors.The sound will be loud and clear. It is only model in the all USSR which has LW band configuration with extra coil sitting on board instead of ferrite bar in order to have better efficiency on MW when that coil is shorted. Cute design. These 2 pins on the board are for charging a 8.75 V battery from external adapter. Memories... Thanks YA
The capacitor type is "B3P". "1MK 50B" means 1uf 50 volts. So it is an electrolytic capacitor, the positive end I take it is marked by the crimp. It was made July 1976.
Great video.Longwave isn't quite finished yet in Europe..BBC Radio 4 uses 198KHz,France are on 162,Morocco and Algeria also are on the band Think a lot of the Russian stations may have shut now. Interesting band for DX,in winter daytime signals of 1000 miles plus are common.Generally the longer the ferrite rod antenna is,more DX is pulled in on both AM and Longwave.
I recently repaired a sokol radio (not the 403 model, the other one). It had 2 bad p40 transistors (short circuit). I replaced them with p41 models and radio is back from the dead !
@@shango066 Thanks for the tip ! I'll probably replace them. Indeed, it's quite uncommon to have several shorted transistors so there had to be a reason.
Fantastic find I have a few Soviet portables, they work well. Never had a Transistor failure, only Capacitors and the odd Resistor, the Headphone socket contacts oxidise and cause problems, the PCB soldering is generaly good.
Great job troubleshooting, comparing gain between two like units, and then eventually got the original to outperform the newly acquired SOKOL radio. I also liked especially the way how you cut the traces and bridged the caps to the underside to preserve the "look." Yeah... Who would want to open up this Russian puppy and see nothing but Nichicon in there? Yuk! It would be like opening up the bonnet of a 60's Jag and see a Chevy 350 V8 in there! Bad...
Not quality, but rather complexity. 0 being highly complicated. And 4 - simple. Like record player "Elektronika EP-017" has soft control over tonearm movement and microlift actuation, quartz stabilization, low-noise direct drive, MM stylus. And something like "Yunost` 301" - manual portable record player with roller-driven platter, tube amp, mono, sapphire piezo stylus.
Really interesting video. And those schematics! Gotta love the (pretty much) universal language of electronics. Really easy to follow along. Great job as always with the diagnosis and explaining your own thinking as you go. I learn a lot just watching how (and why) you do things. Two thumbs up, and keep on keepin' on, buddy.
Ай спасибо друг, тебя прямо бог послал, я со схемами не дружу, а тут на видео понял откуда провод отвалился! А отвалился он от платы, в левом верхнем углу, тот который шол от большой квадратной хреновины с четырьмя винтами, один конец с левой стороны был припаен к этой хреновине, а второй конец меду этой хернёй и антенной на плате. Дай бог тебе здоровья, чужестранец!
👍😁 у нас тогда вначале 80-х были популярные эти самые 📻 "Falcon 403". Ну а радиодетали были самые разные, но в частности конденсаторы всё-же предпочитали японские.
That is the Hungarian version of the schematic as Sokol 403 was sold in big quantities in Hungary. That symbol was the Hungarian symbol for transistor in the seventies, not anymore.
25:30 "I love the way the Soviets show the transistors" Actually that is not an original Soviet schematic, it is a Hungarian redrawn schematic, as there are millions of Sokol 403 exported to Hungary.
It seems nobody has noticed that it can recharge it's battery. I bought one new in the 80s, it was delivered with a 9V cylindrical lead accumulator, sealed of course. This that occupied the whole side (you can see the place available is much bigger than a standard 9V battery). When connected on line, it was able to operate the radio and recharge the battery. I also operated it on a NiCad once the lead battery died, and it still loaded that.
I grew up in a Slovak/Hungarian/Polish influenced neighborhood during a time when communications with our elders required us to know at least one Slavic language. "Sokol" loosely translates to "socialize" in Slovak and Czech. That name is used today (still) by many Slovak-influenced social clubs in larger metropolitan areas in the US and Canada. Clever repair technique, a very nice find, and a well constructed radio. Coleman's Surplus, of Millersburg, PA, often has Eastern Bloc military communications equipment for sale, and often, for dirt cheap pricing.
In the states, the word "Sokol" was bastardized in order to label Slavic social clubs, and separate them, purposely, from "citizenship and educational organizations", such as the "Polish American Citizen's Club", "Slovak American Citizenship and Educational Society", and several others. There are at least one hundred words whose meanings/definitions have become vastly different over the years, chief amongst them, "haluski". BTW, I spoke "Americanized" Slovak and Polish before eventually being saturated in English. In both languages, polishing/waxing a table is often referred to as "Pledgeowitzing the table", a practice where immigrants pulled terms from the English languish which had no Slavic equivalent, and corrupted them in Slavic dialect, in order to meet their needs.
B3P means Plant of Radio components in Vitebsk. You looking to schematics of Orljonok, not COKO/\ 403. That problematic capacitor is 1 mF. and it is on input of Audio amp. And wash a controls for the presentation. MMT Resistor is not for adjustinga BIAS, it is thermoresistor to keep a current on power push-pull output stable on higher ambient temperature. YA
not Vitebsk, it's Plant of Radio components in Voronesh. This plant made 90% of porarysed caps for USSR. In my city (Vitebsk) this Plant named Monolit, and it made ceramic high presition caps for military now
The radio in my thumb nail is a Hacker rp75, it's missing the ferrite aerial and the 5 inch oval speaker. One day I am looking forward to seeing you replace a ferrite aerial, your diagnosis of televisions are just as interesting especially the test equipment and the hook ups you do.
Strange thing about DX'ING AM. We used to travel from South Dakota to Arizona for the winters. On of the major radio stations we listen to in SD is KFYR 55 AM out of Bismarck ND. Well one day I drove the wife to the store in Topok AZ to get some bread and milk, I waited in the Jeep, and turned on the radio for a bit of music. The dial was set to 55 AM, and Bismarck came in plain enough for me to be able to listen to Rush Limbaugh, they station ID came on and it was indeed BISMARCK ND well over a thousand miles north east of where I was parked. I tried it the following year in our Ford Edge, with the same result.
And like many others said, LW is still alive and kicking in Europe :-) some stations have shut down, but most are still there and do not plan to shutdown.
LW is awesome for long distance coverage. Some of the LW stations like the former Atlantic 252 from Ireland had 1.2 megawatts transmitter power, and could be received across the ocean in North America. I could receive it on occasion in the early 1990s in Northeastern Canada. The band is vacant here with exception of a few frequencies being used for airport NDBs in each city, so DXing from Europe can be interesting.
Good job.i Love watching your videos. I wished i had ten percent of your radio knowledge. Im having so much trouble just trying to get a crystal radio to work.i ordered some bojack 1n34a diodes.cant get nothing but buzzing .lol
Nice video. Just a few minor points on the schematic diagram: The 'tube like' transistor symbols are not typical for a russian/soviet original schematic diagram; these look more like (East) German style. (Before the computing era, you could identify the country origin of a schematic diagram by looking at the subtle differences between the symbols). Equally interesting is the fact that the schematic mentions non-soviet replacements for the semiconductors (the non-soviet AF136 (RF), AC125/ AC128 (AF) (Germanium) transistors, for the soviet P402 (RF), MP40(AF)). Anyone knows if there were variants of these radios manufactured with non-soviet semiconductors?
This is a very nice 👍 📻 radio.. the dial, the case, the circuitry. All down to the 9-volt battery and leatherette case. Reminiscent of any “power out” transistor radio. Keep tabs during power outages, hurricanes, volcanoes, any disaster. It’s also a perfect 👌 piece of equipment for the living room, to listen to a ball 🏀 game. Too nice 👍 to hide it in a closet, shed, or basement. Can be used in a bedroom, but, again, I’d rather not hide this radio’s beauty.
i realy like the design on those Sokol radios i should keep my eyes open for simmular soviet sets they should be somewhat more common here in EU but preferly a model with FM band becoase there are not much intresting on MV over here in europe exept BBC 4 on long wave but i live to far north to realy pick that up and duch Radio 5 Nostalgia on MV but that´s also heard to get in. BTW. how do you test those caps do you hook them up to the line level signal or between the output and the speaker?
Like you said portable small and very well built military quality almost think about it probably military guys or their users in the field and they use an external intended to bring in stations😅
can i send you a receiver/amp? It's a Tenna.. a solid state home-gamer box complete with plastic/laminate wood grain.. I can't figure out how to get the damn chassis out of its clothes. the tuning knob seems to have a trick to it, and I'm no wizard. PS.. have you ever worked on a Mr Microphone? just playin
I've got one of these and it looks quite different... one thing tho that annoys me is that the leads on the polystyrene caps break really easily for some reason... also the yellow plastic case transistor leads also are weak but not nearly as bad as on those polystyrene caps, that said... I don't see any of those caps in the radios you have. one thing that was a big problem on my radio was the variable capacitors wouldn't turn and forcing it just broke the connection between the screw and the plate that turns
Középhullámú rádiót ha gyenge vételi körülmények között próbálsz ki, akkor a ferritantenna miatt nem árt körbeforgatni, hogy az adóra merőlegese legyen. Egyébként meg az elekrtrolit kondenzátoraira volt kényes, különben szinte elpusztíthatatlan ketyere.
Obviously the best decision to take is to simply change all the electrolitic capacitors at once. End off. Time is very much wasted if you try otherwise. And yes they are indeed very very good radios. MK marking means micro farads on all those aluminium electrolitic capacitors.
They were sold in many western europe countries. After a while, they rebranded them "Comix 403", probably to make the name sound more "western". I had one, it was a good product. Now I'm wondering what happened to it, I can't remember !
Can you get Russian replacement parts from Russia,if I remember from one of your videos you had a supply of Russian transistors,maybe you can get Russian caps from some where.man there radios are made so much different ,they seem pretty rugged radios ,anyone no what they cost ,when they were new
If it was me, I'd remove all those old perishing caps and replace them underneath with tantalums then go to town with seeing how much performance I can squeeze out of it, then go and see if it can equal or beat the zenith 😅
i have russian radio model 303 but their is a problem in the radio,the fm is not working,i,m trying to fix it but i can't. pleas tell me how to fix this problem
If it is russian radio not made for export, there will be problem with FM. Russians use different FM band than US and west Europe. Russian FM band was 66-75MHz, US is 88-108MHz. So maybe radio is working, but the used FM band is wrong.
shango066 Yes 50 V cap in that equipment is a massive overkill but Russians often put what they had on the shelf and this was typical because theirs plants often runs several type of productions if you know what I mean. And military production was often mixed with just simple small radios. In case of question we manufacturing just home appliances. For example Jupiter plant near nuclear power plant manufactured tape recorders... Yes I'm sure they manufactured recorders as well...
That isn't really unusual, you see similar things in stuff like LCD monitors, 50 volt 50 uf capacitors where it would be lucky to see 3-5 vdc on a good day. I the case of the monitor it was probably related to whatever China made garbage brand capacitors they could get cheap that day. I noticed that the electrolytic capacitors in this radio look very much like the ones you might find in a West German built radio of the 1950s or 60s with the way they used crimps to connect the leads rather then rivets or spot welds.
I agree, that style fails almost as badly as western products. The rest though outlives European, Japanese or American parts by around 400% on average.
Я в шоке, американец возится с этим динозавром и доволен как слон, в то время как совсем зажравшиеся русские совсем не ценят прошлое. Это о многом говорит. Спасибо за позитивное видео!!!
This radio was in almost every household in Hungary. This is kind of relic of socialism.
I wish the United States was a relic of socialism because now we're going into it
@@ronalddaub7965 Trump would have stopped it, but the deep state didn't want that.
Long Wave is certainly used here in the UK. Our BBC Radio 4 is transmitted at huge power, still on a 1930's transmitter from Daventry, on 198Khz. It is one of our UK frequency standards.
Richard (UK)
Nothing like some Herb Alpert " RISE" while you were doing the diagnosis. Loved that touch.. I love watching your vids.. You actually got me wanting to start tinkering with transistor radios...
My grandfather has a radio like this. Bought it new in the early 80s. A couple of years later he placed it on the top of his car (Fiat 124) so he can listen to music while working in the garden. After a while he needed to use the car for something and forgot to take the radio off. He ran it over while it was still working. And it was working after that, although it was a bit squished. It still works to this day. This radio is a TANK!! :D
A fost unul din cele mai bune si reusite aparate de radio din acea vreme
This is cool. Love odd old radios. Longwave is still very much alive in europe. I was recently listening on an SDR in england and the longwave band was packed with stations.
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It's dead in Australia as well but before the NDB transmitters for the airports were turned off, we used to be able to listen to Morse code idents from everywhere at night! However, we've never had broadcasting stations on there. May be now they're off, I should try to DX the European broadcasts haha!
I have a few of these. First you do-change an electrolytic capacitors.The sound will be loud and clear. It is only model in the all USSR which has LW band configuration with extra coil sitting on board instead of ferrite bar in order to have better efficiency on MW when that coil is shorted. Cute design. These 2 pins on the board are for charging a 8.75 V battery from external adapter. Memories...
Thanks
YA
The capacitor type is "B3P". "1MK 50B" means 1uf 50 volts. So it is an electrolytic capacitor, the positive end I take it is marked by the crimp. It was made July 1976.
One helll of a radio. You gotta do more russian electronics vids. Those things are wicked!
Great video.Longwave isn't quite finished yet in Europe..BBC Radio 4 uses 198KHz,France are on 162,Morocco and Algeria also are on the band Think a lot of the Russian stations may have shut now.
Interesting band for DX,in winter daytime signals of 1000 miles plus are common.Generally the longer the ferrite rod antenna is,more DX is pulled in on both AM and Longwave.
East Russia and China and Tibet are on LW in my part of the world 🌎
I recently repaired a sokol radio (not the 403 model, the other one). It had 2 bad p40 transistors (short circuit). I replaced them with p41 models and radio is back from the dead !
The reason why they were shorted on this set what is because the little orange capacitors would randomly short and bias them on so watch that
@@shango066 Thanks for the tip ! I'll probably replace them. Indeed, it's quite uncommon to have several shorted transistors so there had to be a reason.
Fantastic find I have a few Soviet portables, they work well.
Never had a Transistor failure, only Capacitors and the odd Resistor, the Headphone socket contacts oxidise and cause problems, the PCB soldering is generaly good.
Great job troubleshooting, comparing gain between two like units, and then eventually got the original to outperform the newly acquired SOKOL radio.
I also liked especially the way how you cut the traces and bridged the caps to the underside to preserve the "look."
Yeah... Who would want to open up this Russian puppy and see nothing but Nichicon in there? Yuk! It would be like opening up the bonnet of a 60's Jag and see a Chevy 350 V8 in there! Bad...
Fun fact: first digit in the model number means quality grade, where "0" is the best / feature-rich and "4" is the cheapest and simplest design.
Not quality, but rather complexity. 0 being highly complicated. And 4 - simple. Like record player "Elektronika EP-017" has soft control over tonearm movement and microlift actuation, quartz stabilization, low-noise direct drive, MM stylus. And something like "Yunost` 301" - manual portable record player with roller-driven platter, tube amp, mono, sapphire piezo stylus.
Nice radio and it's certainly one you're not going to see everyday.
I have a few of these radios, they still pop-up in fleamarkets here in old Europa, usually they are 2 or 3 euros deals, I won't complain.
wow that's an awesome schematic! loved that transistor and the 470 potentiometer! ty
Congratulation from Hungary ,Budapest .
Really interesting video. And those schematics! Gotta love the (pretty much) universal language of electronics. Really easy to follow along. Great job as always with the diagnosis and explaining your own thinking as you go. I learn a lot just watching how (and why) you do things. Two thumbs up, and keep on keepin' on, buddy.
As of 2022, a $1 capacitor in 1946 would cost $15.22 today. Crazy....
Neat little radios and a nice repair!
Ай спасибо друг, тебя прямо бог послал, я со схемами не дружу, а тут на видео понял откуда провод отвалился! А отвалился он от платы, в левом верхнем углу, тот который шол от большой квадратной хреновины с четырьмя винтами, один конец с левой стороны был припаен к этой хреновине, а второй конец меду этой хернёй и антенной на плате. Дай бог тебе здоровья, чужестранец!
My grandfather had exactly the same radio. Still working in the early 1990's
Your repair made the sound quality difference like night & day. Thanks for this video!
That's a beauty,they sure don't make them that good anymore unfortunately.
How Cool! Interesting to see how they made their consumer electronic equipment. Thanks for sharing the video.
I admire your knowledge in electronics. Always interesting.
Russian built electronics were pretty much built to a certain military spec. and built to last.
ElfNet Designs definitely, thay could keep the cost relatively low, but quality was top notch that is why I love Russian equipment in general.
Russian vacuum tubes keep my 1950s era hi-fi system going !
Probably why your country still makes electron tubes
Can someone send me a link where in Russia where to order vacuum tubes
Most Soviet electronics were produced by factories which would quickly switch to military items in case of war
That's a nice way to repair it while keeping it looking authentic. I like that.
old good stuff.
thanks to you, I managed to fix my sokol radio.
I learned a lot from you.
glad to see you didn't have to muck with those beautiful transistors
Interesting radio. CCCP is Russian made.1µF 50V
Great repair and fault analyses.
👍😁 у нас тогда вначале 80-х были популярные эти самые 📻 "Falcon 403". Ну а радиодетали были самые разные, но в частности конденсаторы всё-же предпочитали японские.
My Dad Had An Old GE Transister Like The
Sokol 403. It Worked Pretty good When
I Found It In A Drawer One Day. All It
Need Was A Batttery.
Nearest bowling alley or no malir lirum lirum nobler normally irmler?
No habló inglés pero me gusta tu vídeo que buen Radio y esa banda LM nunca había escuchado que existió
Sokol means Hawk... That logo is a rep. of a Hawk in flight .
makinjica skcol means Falcon
That little speaker does sound pretty good. More low end than it’s stature might suggest.
Не встречал в советской радио литературе такого обозначения транзисторов на схемах, как здесь.
"ВЗР" - Воронежский Завод Радиодеталей.
That is the Hungarian version of the schematic as Sokol 403 was sold in big quantities in Hungary. That symbol was the Hungarian symbol for transistor in the seventies, not anymore.
25:30 "I love the way the Soviets show the transistors" Actually that is not an original Soviet schematic, it is a Hungarian redrawn schematic, as there are millions of Sokol 403 exported to Hungary.
K50-12 were dodgy quality. But it made a loud bang when heated. Good repair video, keep up the good work, mate.
It seems nobody has noticed that it can recharge it's battery. I bought one new in the 80s, it was delivered with a 9V cylindrical lead accumulator, sealed of course. This that occupied the whole side (you can see the place available is much bigger than a standard 9V battery). When connected on line, it was able to operate the radio and recharge the battery. I also operated it on a NiCad once the lead battery died, and it still loaded that.
I grew up in a Slovak/Hungarian/Polish influenced neighborhood during a time when communications with our elders required us to know at least one Slavic language. "Sokol" loosely translates to "socialize" in Slovak and Czech. That name is used today (still) by many Slovak-influenced social clubs in larger metropolitan areas in the US and Canada. Clever repair technique, a very nice find, and a well constructed radio.
Coleman's Surplus, of Millersburg, PA, often has Eastern Bloc military communications equipment for sale, and often, for dirt cheap pricing.
no, sokol means hawk or falcon in just about every slavic language
In the states, the word "Sokol" was bastardized in order to label Slavic social clubs, and separate them, purposely, from "citizenship and educational organizations", such as the "Polish American Citizen's Club", "Slovak American Citizenship and Educational Society", and several others.
There are at least one hundred words whose meanings/definitions have become vastly different over the years, chief amongst them, "haluski".
BTW, I spoke "Americanized" Slovak and Polish before eventually being saturated in English. In both languages, polishing/waxing a table is often referred to as "Pledgeowitzing the table", a practice where immigrants pulled terms from the English languish which had no Slavic equivalent, and corrupted them in Slavic dialect, in order to meet their needs.
Russian stuff is bizarrely cool!!
That little guy sounded really good after your repair!
B3P means Plant of Radio components in Vitebsk. You looking to schematics of Orljonok, not COKO/\ 403. That problematic capacitor is 1 mF. and it is on input of Audio amp. And wash a controls for the presentation. MMT Resistor is not for adjustinga BIAS, it is thermoresistor to keep a current on power push-pull output stable on higher ambient temperature.
YA
not Vitebsk, it's Plant of Radio components in Voronesh. This plant made 90% of porarysed caps for USSR. In my city (Vitebsk) this Plant named Monolit, and it made ceramic high presition caps for military now
I'd like to hear Back in the USSR on it. Cool radio!
All ya hear now is Back in the DHSS - Half Man Half Biscuit.
The radio in my thumb nail is a Hacker rp75, it's missing the ferrite aerial and the 5 inch oval speaker. One day I am looking forward to seeing you replace a ferrite aerial, your diagnosis of televisions are just as interesting especially the test equipment and the hook ups you do.
Strange thing about DX'ING AM. We used to travel from South Dakota to Arizona for the winters. On of the major radio stations we listen to in SD is KFYR 55 AM out of Bismarck ND. Well one day I drove the wife to the store in Topok AZ to get some bread and milk, I waited in the Jeep, and turned on the radio for a bit of music. The dial was set to 55 AM, and Bismarck came in plain enough for me to be able to listen to Rush Limbaugh, they station ID came on and it was indeed BISMARCK ND well over a thousand miles north east of where I was parked. I tried it the following year in our Ford Edge, with the same result.
And like many others said, LW is still alive and kicking in Europe :-) some stations have shut down, but most are still there and do not plan to shutdown.
LW is awesome for long distance coverage. Some of the LW stations like the former Atlantic 252 from Ireland had 1.2 megawatts transmitter power, and could be received across the ocean in North America. I could receive it on occasion in the early 1990s in Northeastern Canada. The band is vacant here with exception of a few frequencies being used for airport NDBs in each city, so DXing from Europe can be interesting.
Good job.i Love watching your videos. I wished i had ten percent of your radio knowledge. Im having so much trouble just trying to get a crystal radio to work.i ordered some bojack 1n34a diodes.cant get nothing but buzzing .lol
that staticy thing as you call it is a thunderstorm ! old am radios are pretty good at detecting approaching thunder storms
Amazing radio
Good work!
Nice video. Just a few minor points on the schematic diagram:
The 'tube like' transistor symbols are not typical for a russian/soviet original schematic diagram; these look more like (East) German style. (Before the computing era, you could identify the country origin of a schematic diagram by looking at the subtle differences between the symbols). Equally interesting is the fact that the schematic mentions non-soviet replacements for the semiconductors (the non-soviet AF136 (RF), AC125/ AC128 (AF) (Germanium) transistors, for the soviet P402 (RF), MP40(AF)). Anyone knows if there were variants of these radios manufactured with non-soviet semiconductors?
Shango 66 отлично справляется с этим радио в оригинальном состоянии. Топики топ-марок.
The orange cubes are multilayer mica capacitors as far as I know.
This is a very nice 👍 📻 radio.. the dial, the case, the circuitry. All down to the 9-volt battery and leatherette case. Reminiscent of any “power out” transistor radio. Keep tabs during power outages, hurricanes, volcanoes, any disaster. It’s also a perfect 👌 piece of equipment for the living room, to listen to a ball 🏀 game. Too nice 👍 to hide it in a closet, shed, or basement. Can be used in a bedroom, but, again, I’d rather not hide this radio’s beauty.
Wow what a great Find
Thanks dude, man I really enjoy your video`s :)
*Слава Советсеому Союзу!*
That 'Superior Quality' symbol, (circled 'K') looks like a Kosher symbol used for Food products. NICE Radios!
those KGB Transistors are diehard badasses , THEY LOOKS LIKE UFOS hehehehe !
Those sets give a nice band-spread of the 160 - 190 kHz "lowfer" amateur/hobby radio band.
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i realy like the design on those Sokol radios
i should keep my eyes open for simmular soviet sets they should be somewhat more common here in EU but preferly a model with FM band
becoase there are not much intresting on MV over here in europe
exept BBC 4 on long wave but i live to far north to realy pick that up and duch Radio 5 Nostalgia on MV but that´s also heard to get in.
BTW. how do you test those caps do you hook them up to the line level signal or between the output and the speaker?
Vary good veduo my fraind .
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I see you added a flame emitting capacitor to the circuit ;-) Tantalums are pure cancer, but they have their uses sometimes.
Hi.
Could you please elaborate your method (audio) of testing caps in-circuit? Thanks.
we still have stations on long wave here in the UK
P.S., since shortwave is dying out, is there anything they can use those unused frequencies for?
3:25 "Does have a line input there" That's a 9V input for charging the battery if you fit a rechargeable battery.
I was the 800 ❤
Завидую белой завистью. Много АМ станций. У нас в Украине , днëм , всего три станции на СВ. В Штатах насчëт этого , как я вижу , лучше .
СВ в странах СНГ закрыли. А в Европе , как на ФМ
Like you said portable small and very well built military quality almost think about it probably military guys or their users in the field and they use an external intended to bring in stations😅
can i send you a receiver/amp? It's a Tenna.. a solid state home-gamer box complete with plastic/laminate wood grain.. I can't figure out how to get the damn chassis out of its clothes. the tuning knob seems to have a trick to it, and I'm no wizard. PS.. have you ever worked on a Mr Microphone? just playin
I've got one of these and it looks quite different...
one thing tho that annoys me is that the leads on the polystyrene caps break really easily for some reason... also the yellow plastic case transistor leads also are weak but not nearly as bad as on those polystyrene caps, that said... I don't see any of those caps in the radios you have.
one thing that was a big problem on my radio was the variable capacitors wouldn't turn and forcing it just broke the connection between the screw and the plate that turns
Back In The USSR!
Középhullámú rádiót ha gyenge vételi körülmények között próbálsz ki, akkor a ferritantenna miatt nem árt körbeforgatni, hogy az adóra merőlegese legyen. Egyébként meg az elekrtrolit kondenzátoraira volt kényes, különben szinte elpusztíthatatlan ketyere.
Obviously the best decision to take is to simply change all the electrolitic capacitors at once. End off. Time is very much wasted if you try otherwise. And yes they are indeed very very good radios. MK marking means micro farads on all those aluminium electrolitic capacitors.
You could put capacities on the bottom of the board and it wouldn't look like it'd been modified at all
Could this had been made for export?
They were sold in many western europe countries. After a while, they rebranded them "Comix 403", probably to make the name sound more "western". I had one, it was a good product. Now I'm wondering what happened to it, I can't remember !
Cool radios... What the hell was that tune playing at 16:40?
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Can you get Russian replacement parts from Russia,if I remember from one of your videos you had a supply of Russian transistors,maybe you can get Russian caps from some where.man there radios are made so much different ,they seem pretty rugged radios ,anyone no what they cost ,when they were new
Я из России, если интересуют транзисторы СССР серии МП41А или другие, могу наверное отправить.
Damn that one radio has a lot of Base it's rattling my Android phone speaker
27:46 interesting schematics. Must be some export version of the document. I've never seen such transistor symbols in russian docs.
That transistor symbol is a lot closer to the realities of a real transistor than the symbols in use elsewhere...
If it was me, I'd remove all those old perishing caps and replace them underneath with tantalums then go to town with seeing how much performance I can squeeze out of it, then go and see if it can equal or beat the zenith 😅
i have russian radio model 303 but their is a problem in the radio,the fm is not working,i,m trying to fix it but i can't. pleas tell me how to fix this problem
If it is russian radio not made for export, there will be problem with FM. Russians use different FM band than US and west Europe. Russian FM band was 66-75MHz, US is 88-108MHz. So maybe radio is working, but the used FM band is wrong.
They gave several of those to Hunter Biden just joking you have some good videos I love the Russian stuff ,its so heavy duty
Я конечно не чего не понял, но было интересно!!! Палец вверх!!!!
I had a Signal with alarm clock funktion with a mechanikal clock built in
В условиях плановой экономики всё лучшее переводилось на запад
Сколько станций на СВ охренеть, а у нас все поубивали. Жаль.
Только китаезские по ночам можно словить и то при хорошей погоде (Якутск)
maybe is a bag transistor in the antenna preamp but I don't know.
Very hard to find radios
The hexagon With CCCP is like the Mexican Hecho en Mexico with eagle emblem. A patriotic emblem
No, it's a "government top standard quality" mark. That mark was only issued to products that were good enough to be exported outside of USSR.
capacitor 1 МКФ - 1 MKF electrolytic. 1MКФ 50В = 1MKF 50V
Actually 1 МКФ 50B means 1MKF 50V so it's definitely 1 microfarad 50 volts...
shango066 Yes 50 V cap in that equipment is a massive overkill but Russians often put what they had on the shelf and this was typical because theirs plants often runs several type of productions if you know what I mean. And military production was often mixed with just simple small radios. In case of question we manufacturing just home appliances. For example Jupiter plant near nuclear power plant manufactured tape recorders... Yes I'm sure they manufactured recorders as well...
That isn't really unusual, you see similar things in stuff like LCD monitors, 50 volt 50 uf capacitors where it would be lucky to see 3-5 vdc on a good day. I the case of the monitor it was probably related to whatever China made garbage brand capacitors they could get cheap that day. I noticed that the electrolytic capacitors in this radio look very much like the ones you might find in a West German built radio of the 1950s or 60s with the way they used crimps to connect the leads rather then rivets or spot welds.
yes, 1uF 50V, aluminum foil electrolytic capacitor
I have a sokol 404 but it plays nothing at all could it be transistors?
Там может быть причина в конденсаторах и в транзисторах. Меняй все эти детали.
электролиты к50-12 всегда были плохие. сразу в мусор
I agree, that style fails almost as badly as western products. The rest though outlives European, Japanese or American parts by around 400% on average.
the transistors look like ufos
Cycles per second has been replaced with Hertz