In a taxi and bearing gifts of wine and
chocolates me and Valery arrived in the general area. We had to look around to find the
correct apartment block. Taking the lift up to the 7th floor. We met his son in the
corridor who said his dad was waiting for us. Inside his nice apartment Vladimir took us
to his office. On his desk was a modern Japanese transceiver, we talked as we drank tea.
He showed us to his balcony which had glass panels around it. In it was the
biggest Russian radio station I
had ever seen. It was fully automatic and controlled from his office, he showed it to me
working, it was very impressive. Almost all the knobs were going around while making lots
of noise. I was thinking it would be a nightmare fixing it!
Back inside his office he opened a cupboard and started taking out radios in his
collection, many of which I had not seen before. He showed me one interesting
Kleinfunksprecher D German W.W.II belt mount Radio transceiver (picture below) and said
that he had two of them, I offered to buy one from him but he refused.
While I was taking pictures of radios he told us about a
P-123-M Russian tank radio
which he and a friend had thrown out from his balcony on the seventh floor onto the
concrete below, it worked after they replaced the shattered tubes! I saw the set later and
it looked fine.
As well as collecting radios Vladimir collects coins, handsets and Morse keys. We drank
some wine while he called his friend UR8LU on the phone and arranged for us to go and see
a Russian radio direction finder. On the way out he gave me one of the Kleinfunksprecher D
German W.W.II belt mount Radios as a present, I was speechless. Thank you Vladimir. I
promise to look after it.
My sincere thanks goes out to UR4LU, UT3LL and UR8LU for letting me take pictures of their
radios and being my guide around town. |
![UR4LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR4LU_Collection-13_small.jpg)
UR4LU Collection
Kleinfunksprecher D German W.W.II belt mount Radio Transceiver and battery box.
32Mhz-38Mhz 0.2 Watts output Very Rare |
![UR4LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR4LU_Collection-02_small.jpg)
UR4LU Collection
Inside view of the
Kleinfunksprecher D German W.W.II belt mount Radio Transceiver 32Mhz-38Mhz 0.2 Watts
output
Very Rare |
![UR4LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR4LU_Collection-08_small.jpg)
UR4LU Collection
A7B Transceiver 240Mhz-280Mhz FM |
![UR4LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR4LU_Collection-04_small.jpg)
UR4LU Collection
Early Cat Whiskers radio W.W.I |
![UR4LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR4LU_Collection-09_small.jpg)
UR4LU Collection
10PT-26 Receiver with 10PT-263 Transmitter and spares box |
![UR4LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR4LU_Collection-03_small.jpg)
UR4LU Collection
10PT-26 Receiver spares box and Morse key |
![UR4LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR4LU_Collection-06_small.jpg)
UR4LU Collection
10PT-263 Transmitter |
![UR4LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR4LU_Collection-05_small.jpg)
UR4LU Collection
RSU-4 Transmitter |
![UR4LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR4LU_Collection-07_small.jpg)
UR4LU Collection
Russian station R-140 Bereza (The Birch) fully automatic, PA using 4CX1500A Tubes |
![UR4LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR4LU_Collection-11_small.jpg)
UR4LU Collection
US-P |
![UR4LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR4LU_Collection-12_small.jpg)
UR4LU Collection
RSB-5 / P-805 BP-3 Airborne, Transmitter. A hybrid copy of command sets and German
FuG10/16 sets |
![UR4LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR4LU_Collection-15_small.jpg)
UR4LU Collection
RBM-1 |
![UR4LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR4LU_Collection-10_small.jpg)
UR4LU Collection |
![UR4LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR4LU_Collection-01_small.jpg)
UR4LU Collection
Field Telephone |
![UT3LL Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UT3LL_Collection-05_small.jpg)
UT3LL Collection
R399A 1-32 MHz HF Receiver
0.6 mV sensitivity. Tuning in 1Hz and 10Hz steps |
![UR8LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR8LU_Collection-04_small.jpg)
UR8LU Collection
RP-6 Direction Finder |
![UR8LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR8LU_Collection-01_small.jpg)
UR8LU Collection
RP-6 Direction Finder |
![UR8LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR8LU_Collection-02_small.jpg)
UR8LU Collection
RP-6 Direction Finder |
![UR8LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR8LU_Collection-03_small.jpg)
UR8LU Collection
RP-6 Direction Finder |
![UR8LU Collection](/publish/Ukrainian_Expedition/Pictures/Collections/UR8LU_Collection-05_small.jpg)
UR8LU Collection
RP-6 Direction Finder |