The Ukrainian Expedition Collections

Mr. Vladimir Mitkeev UR4LU	Mr. Valery Loshakov UT3LL

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 Kleinfunksprecher D German W.W.II belt mount Radio Transceiver and battery box. 32Mhz-38Mhz 0.2 Watts output Very Rare	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 A7B Transceiver 240Mhz-280Mhz FM	UR4LU Collection Early Cat Whiskers radio W.W.I
UR4LU Collection 10PT-26 Receiver with 10PT-263 Transmitter and spares box	UR4LU Collection 10PT-26 Receiver spares box and Morse key	UR4LU Collection 10PT-263 Transmitter	UR4LU Collection RSU-4 Transmitter
UR4LU Collection Russian station R-140 Bereza (The Birch) fully automatic, PA using 4CX1500A Tubes	UR4LU Collection US-P	UR4LU Collection RSB-5 / P-805 BP-3 Airborne, Transmitter. A hybrid copy of command sets and German FuG10/16 sets	UR4LU Collection RBM-1
UR4LU Collection	UR4LU Collection Field Telephone	UT3LL Collection R399A 1-32 MHz HF Receiver 0.6 mV sensitivity. Tuning in 1Hz and 10Hz steps	UR8LU Collection RP-6 Direction Finder
UR8LU Collection RP-6 Direction Finder	UR8LU Collection RP-6 Direction Finder	UR8LU Collection RP-6 Direction Finder	UR8LU Collection RP-6 Direction Finder