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Item nr.
Russian DX-er's paradise
| Production | USSR, 1975.
Price was 99.02 Rubles. |
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| Bands | LW (150-400 kHz), MW (540-1600 kHz), 52m (3.9-5.7 MHz), 49m (5.85-6.3 MHz), 41m (7.0-7.4 MHz), 31m (9.5-9.775 MHz), 25m (11.7-12.1 MHz). |
| Semi- conductors | 10 transistors. |
| Cabinet | Plastic. |
| Power | Batt 6xD. |
| Documents | Schema. |
The VEF radios (predecessor of this machine was the VEF204) were famous for their good reception and low battery consumption.
Clearly this kind of machine was produced during a long period of time. It seems that the design of the VEF204 goes back as far as 1960 (which I find hard to believe actually) and at the other hand, radios like these were sold new in Cuba around 1989, thirty years later. This picture shows the VEF12 produced between 1968 and 1973.
| Obtained | 4/2005 from Marktplaats (Peter van den Berg). |
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| Condition | 7. |
| Disposed | Sold 12/2012. |
| Sound sample | PLAY SOUND With Shortwave radios one can overhear distant stations, playing exotic styles of music. Due to waving movements in the higher earth atmosphere, the sound can fade in and out as happens near the end of this recording. |
