A Fine Business Russian ham radio site

[w3jn]

A receiver mailing list I subsribe to recommended www.cqham.ru

Then click on the British Flag to auto-translate (it's fair, enough to understand, but uses words like "pressure" instead of voltage, etc).

It's like qrz.com only better!

There are scads of old buzzard schematics and projects going back to 1924 as well as tons of amplifier projects using current Russian toobs, etc.  A truly superb site.

73 John

[wavebourn]

John, such Russian openness is result of absence of the Patent Law (there were no such law in USSR), so we shared all ideas freely, and used to compete whose idea is better! :lol:

[Vortex Joe - N3IBX]

Johnny,
           I checked out the site and it's very good indeed. I just started to discover some of the homebrewski articles and think they're definitely hi hi FBOM!

It is like QR-zed.com but better. Thanks for the link.

[WB2CAU]

John, such Russian openness is result of absence of the Patent Law (there were no such law in USSR), so we shared all ideas freely, and used to compete whose idea is better! :lol:

Should I assume that it is similar in concept to "open source" software?

[wavebourn]

John, such Russian openness is result of absence of the Patent Law (there were no such law in USSR), so we shared all ideas freely, and used to compete whose idea is better! :lol:

Should I assume that it is similar in concept to "open source" software?

It was. Now it is ending since private business come to Russia and patent law restored there.

[xe1yzy]

Сервер Кубанских радиолюбителей  :oops:

[wavebourn]

Сервер Кубанских радиолюбителей  :oops:

Yes, the server of radio amateurs of the Kuban's region. It is not Cuba, it is Kuban' region of Russia.

[Vortex Joe - N3IBX]

What ever happened to the Russian YL website of all the young beautiful Russian Hams and would be Ham Ops?

I'd think we'd have the obvious in common and they're familar with vacuum tubes - a marriage made in heaven!

[flintstone mop]

Joe,
Dey ver snatched from their Ham radios to Svetlana toob factory to blow glass fer der audio toobs, so dat der engineers can keep designing weird audio ampliers.
HA!

G'day

Fred

[wa2zdy]

Like I've said many times in posts on qrz.com, the ham radio of old in the USSR was something else.  They seemed not to have any power supply chokes or electrolytics, but those guys knew their stuff.  What they were able to do with what little they apparently had was similar to the Cuban mechanics keeping the 55 Nomads running.

The chirps and AC hums of course gave them away long before they identified, but looking back, that was just another part of the romance of ham radio.

And like I've said also to new guys, "14 tubes" was NOT the name of a Soviet receiver factory.

[wavebourn]

Come on Chris, Russian hams used to buy great parts stolen from military plants... You could wander looking at what they used to sell on flea markets back in 1970'th -- a lot of new parts from classified enterprises. CIA agents could visit flea markets only to figure out what kind of production plants in certain city run. :lol: