The
first Soviet mass superheterodyne R-set model "CRL-8"
designed by the Central Radio Laboratory was produced by the Leningrad
Kozitsky Works at the end of 1935. On its base the a
radiogramophone was created. The set used the tubes SO-182 (RF
amp), SO-183 (mixer-oscillator), SO-182 (IF amp), SO-185 (detector-AF
amp), SO-118 (AF step II), SO-187 (2 tubes in output "push-pull"),
VO-188 (rectifier). It had 4 bands including 2 SW: 17-30 m and
30-60 m.
However,
attempts to construct a home superheterodyne were made earlier.
For instance, as early as 1931 the Kozitsky Works produced some
units of 6-tube battery-sourced "super" model "SG-6".
The set included a loop aerial and worked on tubes of PT-2 type.
Soon
afterwards the Orjonikidze Works in Moscow commenced output of
the "SI-646" superheterodyne(AC-net Individual Six-coil
Four-tube Model of 1936"). In the first detector a SO-183
tube worked, in IF amp - a SO-182 one. The AF-step was using a
SO-187 tube. The set had three quite modern bands - SW of 19-50
m, MW of 200-550 m and LW of 714-2000 m. It had a number of interesting
constructive peculiarities. Among them there was a device for
fine tuning in the form of an additional round scale with a revolving
pointer and a tuning indicator on the base of a shadow galvanometer
- "orthoscope". Similar indicators were used in some
imported sets of that time ("Tefag" etc.).Unfortunately
the super "SI-646" was produced only in small lots.
Soon after the Kozitsky Works produced its all-band "super"
- "CRL-10K".
Almost
sumultaneously the Alexandrov Radio Works started production of
its famous superheterodynes of first-class series "SVD"
("Superheterodyne All-band with a Loudspeaker") using
as models the best American receivers of that time.The RCA
radiotrones 6D6, 6A7, 6D6, 6V7, 76, 53, 80 were installed in the
set.
At
the beginning of 1938 the "Electrosignal" Works
in Voronezh began mass production of none the less notorious radio
of those times - the "6N-1"
(initially spelled "6NG-1": 6-tube Tabletop with a Loudspeaker).
It worked using metallic tubes with 6,3 V heating, production
of which successfully began in the USSR
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CRL-8
SG-6
SG-646
in1937(6A8,
6K7, 6F5 - with a connection to the cap of the tube, 6F6, 5C4,
6X6, the 6E5 "magic eye"). The first batches of the
this set were equipped with American tubes produced by the
companies "RCA", "Ken-Rad", "Tung-Sol",
"Sylvania" etc.
Then
followed: the "SVD-M" using home-made metal tubes, the
"SVD-9" and "SVD-10".
They were followed
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