[Milsurplus] OT: can anybody assist me with a translation of a russian booklet

[Jack Antonio]

On 2/16/2017 10:39 AM, jedifox wrote:
> hi group,
>          does anybody know how to translate a russian manual from 
> russian to understandable english? as i've tried google translate on 
> it ,and it does

I sympathize.

I recently attempted to translate a Russian radio manual  for the R-800 
VHF set.

And yes, Google translate kept giving me gems like "frequency skull mesh"

The best I was able to do is pull out individual words and try to make 
sense of

what the writers were trying to say. It is very slow going.


Getting familiar with Cyrillic-Roman equivalents brought some words
out, and Google translate did help with some individual words such
as frequency and switch.

I did discover an interesting item about the manual I have.

One of the questions I have about the R-800 set was the crystal frequency

formulas for the receiver.  The receiver is similar to the SCR-522, but 
based

on the crystals in my receiver, the R-800 did not use the same harmonic 
generation

scheme as the SCR-522.

With one exception, the book makes NO mention of  specific frequency 
ranges, multiplication factors or

related information. I did find one reference to the IF frequency, but 
it was

buried in a diagram, not in the text.

I wonder if some poor technical writer got in trouble for that slip up.


Jack Antonio

WA7DIA