[Milsurplus] Russ radio from movie "Star" RBM-1

[Mike Morrow]

Hue wrote:

> Correction: Russian type RBM radio, 1.5 – 5 MHz, 1.5 watt. More detail:
> http://www.antentop.org/004html/004_p86.htm

I have an RBM-1 receiver(6-tube)-transmitter(3-tube) unit, which is most likely the model being used as a prop in that movie scene.  It is definitely not an RBM-5 (which was between the RBM and the RBM-1.

My RBM-1 was built in 1950.  It's an interesting unit that reflects its design origins in the late 1930s.  It's not nearly as well-designed in any characteristic as the US contemporary RT-77/GRC-9.

Here are some descriptions and better photos here of the RBM-series as well as other period Soviet radio gear from a mid-1950s UK military publication:

 http://www.radiomanual.info/schemi/Surplus_Handbooks/Foreign_military_signal_equipment_USSR_1955.pdf
 https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/unknown_rbm_1rbm.html

There's no chance of confusing the visual appearance of the MF/HF-A1/A3 RBM-series with the VHF-FM R-105D, nor the later R-105M.

Mike / KK5F