LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ON USSR VILLAGE RADIO RECEIVERS

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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 861
• Publication Date: August 22, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
LErTiSRS TO THE TsDITOR ON USSR VILLAGE RADIO RECEIVERS
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V. Markar'yan
Gelendzhik, Krasnodar,
RSFSR
Up to the present, our radio industry has manufactured only the Rodina
receiver, battery-operated wired radio centers, and crystal receivers for vil-
lage radiofication. This is not enough: Beside crystal receivers, a very
simple, cheap, two,-ito three-tube radio:with.a:low_power consumption ehonld be
__., a__ ?..,~,..._e r+ ,n?a+_ },P a ritmnl.e receiver which can guarantee
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reliable loud-speaker reception of powerful central radio stations. It should
be put'on the market in~the shortest time possible.
It is also necessary to speed up the mass production of economical tubes
and radio parts for battery seta. The demand for parts is enormous, but there
is almost n~ot}v.ag on sale; especially in the outlying districts. What we need
are variable capacitors, rheostats, f~.xed capacitors and resistors, transformers,
and.eaT..phones. These parts are absolutely not on sale. There are also .no gal-
vanic cells or batteries of low capacity.. As a result, the village radio ama-
teur, who is Just a beginner, or the student in a school, after assembling hie
first one- to two-tube 'receiver, ,j,s obliged to use's PS-70 plate battery an'd a
BNS-MVD 500-filament battery. Such $$ heating set is expensive and is unneces-
sary for a receiver with only a few pubes.
These problems must be solved immediately since the radiofication of vil-
lages and development of amateur radio work depends Un'til~w.
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A. Korotsin,
Chief Engineer's Office,
Kemerovo Board of Wired
Radio Center Networks
In 1950, several dozen.kolkhoz radio centers Were installed in Kemerovo
Oblast. Beside constructing these centers, radiofication was carried on by
installing both tube and crystal receivers.
In spite of the advantages of crystal receivers, tests have shown that
they can be used only in certain areas of our oblast located within close
range of the interoblast Novosibirsk Radio Station. In large villages which
are not yet electrified, a great demand has arisen for tube receivers supplied
by galvanic batteries. This is true not only of Kemerovo Oblast but also of
Tomsk and Novosibirsk oblasts and Altay Kray, since their broadcast programs
also come through the RV-76 Novosibirsk Radio Station. Instead of using ex-
pensive multitube receivers, it would be advisable to have local plants design
and manufacture simple one- to two-tube receivers fixed-tunes to radio station
Rv-76. Such receivers would be simple to operate and would also be cheaper
and more economical that multitube receivers.
The manufacture of such receivers might prove a great aid in the complete
radiofication of the villages of Siberia.
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