Russian Radios

[MarioMania]

I been watching YouTube about Russian Radios, I can't understand what there saying, But I want to know about the Radio

It doesn't look like it has the normal 88-108 MHz or even on OIRT FM Band on it..Any Info on it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhhp5uS_jkU

 

[Ai4i]

All the numbers are in meters:
AB = 800m - 2 kilometers, Longwave
CB = 200 - 550 meters, Medium wave
KB-5 = 60 meters shortwave
KB-4 = 49 meters shortwave
KB-3 = 41 meters shortwave
KB-2 = 31 meters shortwave
KB-1 = 25 meters shortwave
YKB = 4.1-4.5 meters, 74-66 MHz FM
All bands go from what we would consider the top on the left to the bottom on the right.
The little triangles show where the major domestic Russian stations are

 

[landtuna]

In America you listen to radio.
In Russia Putin listen to you.

 

[MarioMania]

In America you listen to radio.
In Russia Putin listen to you.

Haha

 

[Ai4i]

Haha

This might have been a "Haha" before Edward Snowden gave us the real 411.

 

[Ai4i]

BTW...eleven, thirteen, sixteen, and nineteen meters are not included because...
the USSR never used those bands for domestic shortwave broadcasts.

I found the following translations on a newer model sold post-soviet in English language countries:
Vienna, Rome, Kiev, Bratislava
Dresden, Milan, Paris, Warsaw
Stockholm, Poznan
Berlin, Brussels, Prague, Belgrade
Moscow, Helsinki, Riga, Vienna

Many of the cities have been supplanted.
The western FM band is now calibrated in MHz, but still going down in frequency from left to right.

 

[jim-satx]

BTW...eleven, thirteen, sixteen, and nineteen meters are not included because...
the USSR never used those bands for domestic shortwave broadcasts.

I found the following translations on a newer model sold post-soviet in English language countries:
Vienna, Rome, Kiev, Bratislava
Dresden, Milan, Paris, Warsaw
Stockholm, Poznan
Berlin, Brussels, Prague, Belgrade
Moscow, Helsinki, Riga, Vienna

Many of the cities have been supplanted.
The western FM band is now calibrated in MHz, but still going down in frequency from left to right.

Have you done any extensive listening on the LW band with your Russian radio(s)? I've read that some of those radios are strong performers on LW.

 

[Ai4i]

Have you done any extensive listening on the LW band with your Russian radio(s)?
I've read that some of those radios are strong performers on LW.

I have no equipment, but many years ago, I had a domestic radio with longwave connected to a two-hundred foot longwire,
and France Inter from Alluise, outside the NDB band, was a nightly regular between our dusk and their dawn.
Where all the contributors to this thread live, the longwave band would mostly bring NDB's in.
ZBB used to be as a local broadcaster in Miami, but rumor has it that they have gone silent.

 

[Ai4i]

This seems to have been their answer to the Zenith Transoceanic.
They each may have had advantages and disadvantages.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

@ Ai41:

I'm an electronic nebbish here. Was your 200-foot longwire a single span or did you have standoffs breaking up the sag?
Like the SFO-Oakland Bay Bridge?

(See, our property is 150 long here. But if I strung a 150-foot wire from the top of the house front fence to the top-of-the-garage back fence, people still would trip over it or decapitate themselves in the middle).

 

[Ai4i]

Just a wire as long as I could get it between my fourth floor dorm window and the window of a friend in another dorm at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
I used standard steel guy wire which was heavy but would support a lot of "pull".
Porcelain insulators were used at each end.
I was listening to the weather on a Miami radio station (WGBS) one morning, then walked downstairs and out the door.
Never did that again, it was about 25ºF colder where I was.
Some students threw rolls of paper towels over it and security/maintenance quickly removed it and that was the end of my longwire.