02-12-2014, 09:00 AM
OK.. I got it to make radio noises.
On the Russian site, I found a schematic and a pic where they had shunted around to connect the speaker. Between these, I was able to connect power and the speaker (though I was still driven to distraction, because the ground return on the speaker was also open, which I had to fix.)
Seems quite good on all bands, even that oddball Russian OIRT FM band (had to use my signal generator to manage that one, but it sounds pretty good.) I even heard WWVH on 10MHz (30M), though I shouldn't have been able to since the radio supposedly only tunes down to ~10.3MHz... I heard it on 30.4M on the dial). WWVH, on either 5 or 10MHz, is the only US based station (Honolulu, HI) that I've ever been able to receive from my location.
On the Russian site, I found a schematic and a pic where they had shunted around to connect the speaker. Between these, I was able to connect power and the speaker (though I was still driven to distraction, because the ground return on the speaker was also open, which I had to fix.)
Seems quite good on all bands, even that oddball Russian OIRT FM band (had to use my signal generator to manage that one, but it sounds pretty good.) I even heard WWVH on 10MHz (30M), though I shouldn't have been able to since the radio supposedly only tunes down to ~10.3MHz... I heard it on 30.4M on the dial). WWVH, on either 5 or 10MHz, is the only US based station (Honolulu, HI) that I've ever been able to receive from my location.
