REPORTS DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SOVIET RADIO EQUIPMENT; DEPLORES LACK OF CABLE ENGINEERS

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• Publication Date: May 28, 1951
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EXEIBIT NEW AMATEUR RADIO APPARATUS Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 17 Feb 51
On 23 February, Soviet Army and Navy Day, a republic exhibit of the work
of Estonian radio amateurs will open in Tallin. New models of receivers,
amateur transmittpra, measuring instruments, and other types of equipment will
be shown. There will be new designs for magnetophonee submitted by amateurs,
and ultrashort-wave receiving-transmitting apparatus, made by members of the
republic radio club.
.Aavo Tal'vet, a physics laboratory worker from the Polytechnic Institute,
who was awarded the title of "Honorary Radio Operator of the USSR" at the
el &.h ail-anion exhibition for his original radio designs, has worked out a new
panoramic attachment for a receiver.
K. Kings, a designer from the "Punane REP" Plant, will show his new double-
ray oscillograph, which makes it possible to get two reflections on the screen
at the same time.
G. Fedorov, an amateur, is working on a design for a compact, portcble
radiophonogcaph. The best work shown at the exhibit will be removed for demon-
stration at the ninth all-union exhibition of radio apparatus node by,radio
amateurs, which will open in Moscow on Radio Day, 7 May 1951.
DEMONSTRATE NEW AMATEUR RADIO, MEDICAL APPARATUS am Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgii;iya,
25 F-', 51
In honor of the 33d anniversary of the Soviet Army, an exhibit of the re-
sults of amateur radio creative genius has been opened-at the Frunze radio
club of DOSARM. More than 50 different measuring, amplifying, and sound-re-
cording apparatus are being shown.
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A chronoximeter, an interesting instrument for determining the contrac-
ti'n of the mw~xscl.ee and listening to the heartbeat, was contributed by Vladimir
Eakin, a student from the Kirgiz Medical Institute, A measuring instrument for
tuning receivers was designed by Oleg Moiseyenko, a member of the radio club.
Students from the Kirgiz Pedagogical Institute have exhibited sound-recording
and radio hookup testing apparatus.
Other items being ahcwn are a miniature radiophonograph and a nine-tube
amp:l.itier for reproducing phonograph records. Short-wave experts are demon-
etrating the work of a high-spfied apparatus.
MOIDAVI'AN KCLKHOZES TO GET RADIO RECEIVERS -- Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya,
221 Feb 51
t*nN Moldavian SSR will soon be completely equipped with radio facilities.
In addition t-c the Komsololets and Volna radio rece3"rrb which on ante,
the amplest type ,,r radio detector set, providing good reception from the
Kishinev radio atatien, could be furnished to members, of Moldavian,: kolkhozes,
Such a receiver,, the Moldaviya,,is.being produced by the Radio Engineering
Society of the Kishinev Palace of Pioneers. Since it is exactly tuned to the
wave length of the Kishinev station, reception is excellent, The Volna and
Kcmecn.tiets receivers, require careful tuning on the part of the owner of the
set,
The c_3t ^f this receiver, mass-produced, is one half that of the other
types. Fr(Auctior cf the receivers can be worked out successfully by the
manufacture of separate parts In the enterprises of Ministry of Local Industry
of Moldavia, and the aubs'quent assembly of the receivers in one place, or
else by the concentration of production in the workshops of Moldavvesoremtrest
(Moldavian Scales Repair Trust). Thus, waste products from Local best ry
enterpr"_sea, scraps of aluminum, tin, iron, wire, and plywood,
utilized at the same time,
COMPLAINS OF RADIO PARIS WITHOUT RECEIVERS __ Moscow, I,omsomol?skaya Pravda,
6 Mar 51
I read a letter by Yu. Stepanov in Komsomol?skava Pravda called "Radio
Receivers Withra.t Parts," I sympathize with him, for we are brothers in
misfortune. His radio serves only to adorn the room; it is silent because
it has no battery, Every day I have occasion to admire a heap of these
batteries on the shelves of our stores, but I cannot get hold of a receiver
anya?ere. Each of us Is prevented from listening to broadcasts.
We are separated by a small distance. He lives in Chuvash ASSR; I live
in Bashkir AS-SR, )ur republics are connected by railroad. Obviously
and we
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should look each other up, I to buy a receiver in Yadrinskiy Rayon,
provide himself with batteries here at the Rayevka railroad station, It is
fitting that such a trip be made at the indulgence of the Ministry of-Trade,
P. Petrov, Rayevka Station, Bashkir ASSR
ATTACK PEFICIENC' OF OUTSIDE TELEVISION ANTENNAS -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva,
27 Feb 51
Usage hae shcniz:.that 70 percent of the television receivers in Moscow re-
quire outside antennas, Technical specifications of the KVN-49 televisor have
provided for equipping them with outside or inside antennas, depending on
local conditions,
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it ib to be regretted that the problem of television antennas has not
been definitely solved In the course of the last 2 years. The management
of the television network has had to make outside antennas themselves in
extremely limited quantities, insufficient to satisfy the growing demand.
The plant does not produce or erect outside antennas.
So-called cross-shaped antennas are sometimes on sale in the stores,
but they are not equipped with coaxial cable. Such cable occasionally
appears In the stora3, but Its quality is not always satisfactory, and it
is expensive, The __tuation is arousing justified complaints,
It is strange that designers of television receivers compute the in-
take expressly for the use of coaxial cable with 4t wave impedance of 75 ohms,
which is very expensive and not available for purchase, while the designers
of antennas consider it expedient to use symmetrical cable because it is
cheaper, in spite of the fact that it is unsuitable for televisors with
asymmet i.cai intake.
In spite of the existing technical conditions, and in the face of a whole
series of letters and statements on the supplying of outside antennas, the
Ministry of Communications Equipment Industry continues to avoid a solution
of the problem. On 27 January 1951, the deputy minister refused to supply
outside antennas with television receivers on the grounds that the necessary
materials were lacking.
The problem requires immediate solution. Outside antennas should be
supplied by the television network complete with cable, braces, and fastening
parts, B, Baranov, chief of 'the management of the television network.
TO MECHANIZE ASSEMBLY OF RADIO TUBES .._ Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 28 Feb 51
Daring 1 January to 18 February, the radio tube shop of the Moscow El-
ectric Bulb Plant put out 28,000 above-plan tubes.
A new plan was recently drawn up for the shop, calling for increased pro-
duction. To meet the plan, existing equipment must be better utilized, with-
out increasing the number of personnel. Assembly of all equipment will be
by mechanized methods, and mechanization of many minor operations still per-
formed by hand along the conveyer lines will be carried out.
SUPPLY OVER 6o,ooo ITEM OF ELECTRICAL, RADIO EQUIPMENT,-- Moscow, Vechernyaya
Moskva, 24 Feb 51
In February, the Orekhovo-Zuyevo Karbolit Plant supplied more than 60,oQO
different items of electrical and radio installation equipment to the large
hydroelectric construction projects.
SUPPLIES LIGHTING EQUIPMENT FOR CANAL PROJECT =u Yerevan, Kommunist, 17 Iar 51
The Yerevan Electric Lighting Equipment Plant completed its quarter plan
on 15 Marcy and began the output of hbove=plan production. Innovations in the
casting she, ?.ere partly responsible for the speed with which the plan was met.
The plant ',as pledged -to complete an order for the South Ukrainian Can81 con-
struction project by 20 March,
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MAKES TELEPHONE EXCBANGE FOR GES -_ Moicaw, Pravda, 1 Mar 51
The Riga VEF Electrotecbnical Plant has produced a large consignment of
automatic and manual telephone exchanges for the Stalingrad and Kuybyshev GES
a month ahead of schedule. The plant has also been: filling;order@ for the
Volga.=Don Canal project.
SHIPS CABLE PRODUCTS TO VOLGA-DON PROJECT _- Yerevan, Kommunist, 17 Mar 51
The Yerevan Cable Plant is supplying cable to the great construction
projects. An order for two types of cable items for the Volga-Don project
was filled ahead of schedule, and at the end of February and the beginning
of March, the plant shipped more than half the cable ordered for the second
quarter. The remainder of the order is to be completed by the end of March.
CABLE PLANT MODERNIZES EQUIPMENT o_ Moscow, Pravda, 16 Feb 51
Much work has been done at the Kuyoyshev Cable Plant to introduce new
labor methods and to improve and modernize equipment. Mutual control over
operating equipment by machine-tool operators and repairmen is being carried
out in the shops.
CABLE PLANT PROMISES SAVING IN COPPER WASTE ve Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva,
26 Feb 51
Workers in the winding shop of the Moskabel? (Moscow Cable) Plant have
pledged to cut down copper waste products by 25 percent.
INDUSTRY NEEDS TRAINED CABLE, INSULATION ENGINEERS o. Moscow, Izvestiya,
1.4 Feb 51
in connection with the construction of new cable plants and the expansion
of existing ones, as well as the mastery of new types of cable production for
the new construction pro,:cts, the organized training of skilled cable engi-
neers is becoming very necessary.
Modern cable engineering requires of the engineers who specialize in
this field a basic knowledge not only of theory of electrical e*gineering
and its practical application, but also of the economical utilization of
materials and their processing in cable plants.
Although some institutions are training specialized cable and insulation
engineers, the number is inadequate. In 1951, for example, only 3040 cable
engineers will complete their training, although many times that number are
n!~ibded.
Our plants have few specialists in these fields, and their scarcity has
a disadvantageous effect on the solution of important problems relating to
the national economy.
The higher technical schools shaald, therefore, organize the training of
such engineers, particularly the Moscow Power Engineering Institute imeni
Molotov, on.the basis of the Chairs of Cable and Insulation Engineering'at
the Scientific Research Institute of the Cable Industry, and, the Moscow cable
plants.
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