cold war radio military Krot-M KGB USSR Manual book instruction . The book is thin. But this is a rare book, because Krot-M was done little.
Information from the book of V.I. Shapkin "Red Ears", from the Aviko-Press publishing house for 2003, which describes many, at one time of classified radio equipment of the USSR.
The development of this first post-war radio began in the distant 1944-45. In the walls of the secret design bureau No. 619, the city of Leningrad. The chairmanship of the chief engineer M.E old man.
The receivers of such a class as it turned out, the NKVD, NKGB (People's Commissariat of State Security) and, of course, the army! !
The requirements for the developed receiver were serious. He had to exceed all indicators in sensitivity and selectivity the receiver "AR-88" American production!
By simplicity, reliability of structure, strength, exceed German, trophy radio receivers of the E-52 "Coln".
The task was not easy. But already in 1947, the first experimental model was made, and the receiver was released in mass production a year later, in 1948, with the help of radio engineers V. Elizarova (chief designer) A. Savelyev (for information, thereby A. Savelyev, which was developed by the famous radio receiver R-250) L. Kharinsky and S. Buzov!
Production was established at the Kharkov radio plant No. 158. The receiver was produced until 1960. Replaced it for everyone's beloved R-250 .
Frequency range: 1.5 - 24 MHz
Sensitivity: 0.25 μV CW, 3 μV AM
Opening hours: CW, am
Strip: 1 kHz, 3 kHz and 10 kHz
Size: 681 x 356 x 478 mm
Weight: 85 kg, with a power supply of 125 kg.
The radio received all types of TLGs (telegraph) and TLF (telephone) work. Excessive in terms of sensitivity, selectivity and stability, the American “AR-88” was slightly inferior to him in the parameters of the LF.
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