[Milsurplus] Russian longwave receiver photo

[Tom B]

Hi Hue,

If you look at this link, http://www.rw6ase.narod.ru/00/rp_bl/pd4.djvu
it has the entire manual for the PD-4.  It is in djvu format so you will 
need a viewer.

Tom


On 10/17/2016 12:34 AM, Hubert Miller wrote:
>
> Thanks, Tom! I don’t think i would have found this. Kind of surprises 
> me it exists. The images of the page with photo and description, in 
> gothic-type
>
> font, are from some German old, old book. That would be interesting to 
> have a look thru!
>
> It kind of surprises me that old radios, especially non-home radios, 
> survived somehow in Russia. I would think that in the late 1930s, and 
> i’m thinking
>
> specifically of “The Terror of 1937”, that it would be a BAD idea to 
> have any non-entertainment type radio in one’s possession. And then 
> during the
>
> war years, so much of European Russia was laid to waste by the 
> invaders. Then post-war, even if radios were slowly being surplussed, 
> with most
> all Russians living in apartments, or sharing apartments, where would 
> you keep the stuff? Maybe it survived by being communally owned, kept at
>
> ham radio clubs.
>
> This makes me think of the situation in China. I was told by a China 
> traveler that Chinese generally disrespect “old stuff”, i think i mean 
> recent-old,
>
> not antique or classic. They consider it downscale, junky, 
> undesirable. I don’t know if this is a cultural predilection or if 
> it’s like the Russia situation of
>
> old, just more so.
>
> -H
>
> Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2016 8:01 PM
>
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Russian longwave receiver photo
>
> Hi Hue,
>
> I found a better match called a PD4. Have a look at this one:
>
> http://forum.qrz.ru/261-sredstva-svyazi-krasnoy-armii/11346-kub-4m-priyomnik.html
>
> http://keep4u.ru/imgs/b/2009/05/20/77/777f890aee729ff053cee4c42295c250.jpg
>
> Also here http://www.rw6ase.narod.ru/00/rp_bl/pd4.html
>
> Text says "Radio "PD-4" from the middle of 1936 has released a 
> hardware factory of Leningrad. Kazitskogo. Radio "PD-4" is designed 
> for the reception of radio stations working telephone and telegraph in 
> the range from 200 to 20,000 meters (1500 ... 15 kHz). The whole range 
> is covered by waves connecting interchangeable coils. Receiver is 
> assembled on four battery radio tubes. More information about radio 
> receiver "PD-4" and tehnicheski parameters in the statement.
>
> Operating Instructions and the radio circuitry "PD-4"."
>
> Tom
>
>

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