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

[Jim Degenhart]

I will ask a friend if his wife might want to take look. She is 
originally from Moscow. I have never asked her about do translation but 
she might be up for it.

Jim KF9XK


On 2/16/2017 12:26 PM, Jack Antonio wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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