HAZAR Khazar 403 Russian Transistor Radio Repair
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2021
- make abused radio work again
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It's impressive how much stations you still have on MW in the USA.
AM is dying here too, just more slowly.
AM radio is very important to our Emergency Alert System here in the USA. We have 50KW stations that are very important. That said, I hope MW (AM broadcast) never goes away. It would do so much better if most of the stations offered music, as they did 30+ years ago. Talk radio is fine…but not on every frequency !
@@F40PH-2CAT AM radio is killing us actually, with the overabundance of lousy 🗣️💬 programming.
I'm a talk radio fan, I stopped listening to music years ago. The Denver Colorado area has some decent talk radio shows that I enjoy as I'm sick and tired of the NPR indoctrination on FM. The AM talk shows are somewhat conservative, not anti vaxers just rational people willing to have dialog with people suspicious of the vaccines safety. As for music, I think our local stations are either religious (nothing wrong with that just not everyones cup of tea) or Spanish music.
Yeah, here in Netherlands it's as good as empty.
Отличный приёмник! Хазар. I felt the smell of the radio when you opened it
Another nice radio repair. I can hear how selective and quiet that tuner is. Just pops between stations without a mess of crossover and noise.
And please notice that this radio is 4rd class - lowest class in USSR!
Interesting, I didn't realise electrical items were graded in the former Soviet Union.
Can you please tell us more about this grading system?
Is it still in place?
@@freedomvigilant1234 Yes, all items was graded, grade is first digit in model name. Highest is "0", lowest is 4.
For each type of device was standarts, I cannot find it in internet, but I believe it is possible.
It is very pleasant to listen to such a clean broadcast. Not clogged with industrial interference.
The gaps between stations (crystal) are practically noiseless.
As if it is a setting with noise suppression.
Soviet radios had to be selective and sensitive: the country was big with radio stations far away for most of the places
@Badscrew Would you please explain that what makes a radio very sensitive? Is it antenna coil or transistor? Thanks in advance.
@@mianahmad5918 all of it - it needs well tuned antenna, enough RF gain and IF gain and possibility for IF channel to be well tuned (to be able to get narrow enough IF band)
@Badscrew Thank you for your kind and quick reply. I appreciate it. Love from Pakistan.
Russia also had very high powered MW stations to cover a large continent, so living close to say a 1000Kw or even 2000Kw transmitter could overload a normal radio.
@@christopherhulse8385 we did not needed a radio, able to receive them with a chital headset only.
CCCP Radio Free Europe in Berlin ???
"Don't turn around/ the Khazar is in town...."
I got really sad when you told you finished a video on something and don’t post it but got relived when you told it was gonna be uploaded at Sunday. I love your vids and you started my hifi enthusiasm (old HiFi equipment that needs fixing)
There are lots of videos already done.
weird people, not the slick linus levels, just mumbling dates and projects...
Here, here, here….love it Shango ! Your videos are informative and very entertaining ! Keep on rocking ! Much love from South Dakota !
In the Midwest, on long wave around gray line time I have actually heard some DX from Europe and also some stuff from Asia from time to time it’s out there, there’s lots of beacons and things left on those frequencies to
Another beautifully planned, scripted, edited and presented video. The production values alone are what keep me coming back here. :)
Probably if the 646m mast with 2MW long-wave transmitter had not collapsed, you would have received Polish radio program 1.
Shango, show us the repair of the broken antenna wire!
This rig would be an excellent candidate for some desert DX
I think a comparison with the Panasonic RF2200 is in order. Geez. That thing sounds absolutely amazing!!
I've had those variable caps break, the screw breaks off the ceramic plate, and those polystyrene caps (clear case) have very weak leads, so don't bend them much, also they permanently drift if you heat them so take care soldering them.
Damn! Listen how silent it is between stations. Amazing.
You could cut the lead of the dud capacitor as close to the PCB (component side) just enough that it makes no contact, and leave it looking original... Or desolder the copper side so it makes no contact with the pad, and solder in the replacement at a different point...
Nice video, thanks. Simple and reliable radio, but it has seen so many in his life.
watching you, glasslinger & radiophononut the tips & tricks I found most useful
Tks fer good show. Setting in park ...have my xd d -219 running the show. Using a home made wire. It's young. So I watch the fine sets you work on. And watch you win. Against old radios tks om!
PS long wave is used in burst for remote of utility's.
Love these radios, almost from another world
shango066 for the win
As always.. another great video. That Russian stuff is starting to catch my eye. Thanks for sharing!
Another good job, blue gloved one ! Enjoyed watching.
it's a Khazar branded radio, Khazar is another name for the Caspian Sea
I will update it thank you. If you look on eBay they are selling under hazar and I think that's what radio Museum calls it
@@shango066 Yeah, but I can assure you that's read and pronounce as Khazar, a 1980 radio from the Soviets.
2:00 "Price 29 Rubles" = €0.33, in today's exchange rate or about €5 in the 80s
@@andreasproteus1465 But monthly sallary in USSR was 150-300 Rubles, so it wasnt cheap.
@@rezamolaee8185 Exactly. The Cyrillic character that looks like an 'X' typically transliterates into English as 'kh'
I miss not seeing the manky carpet
Always fun to see old Soviet equipment!
I don't know if you know that in the USSR, in the name of the equipment, the code of its class was encrypted. The smaller the number, the better the device.
This receiver has the number 403, the first number 4 means that the receiver is of the fourth class, that is, the simplest possible. And if the number started from zero, then this is a top-class receiver, with a large number of bands and has many additional features. As an example, the radio receiver "Leningrad-010-stereo".
The next digits indicate the development (modification) number, in this case it is the third. In our country (Russia), many such receivers have survived. Almost no one uses them anymore and for this reason they are massively thrown away. The owners give them away for free, just not to throw them away. Hope you weren't charged a lot for them.
Yes I am aware of the numbering system. I still like the radio and it is better quality than anything out of Hong Kong
@@shango066
In IF+Osc stage this radio has Germanium GT309 transistors (with quite low NF). Audio stage Si+Ge transistors. Beside it if they have rhombus symbol it means Xtra good! For militärt use!
Well done!
I'm pretty sure this radio shares the same design and schematics with the Sokol 403.
Since I have the Quartz 404 Olympic (which is, again, based on Sokol 403 with upgraded transistors), I can tell these radios are very sensitive, very selective, and very quiet between stations.
I am impressed by the sensitivity of this receiver. It was probably intended to be used for the deep interior of the now-defunct Soviet Union. Its use was probably "discouraged" near international boundary zones, as it could potentially pick up broadcasts originating from the other side of the Iron Curtain.
Трулей красавица товарищ, Да здравствует Родина, Люблю твою работу Шанго.
I remember that radio. My father had it. He bought this radio in around 1975. I guess it had 7 transistors.
Great work as always sir.
Glad to see you got Russell Williams old radio
Noice! Is that bar antenna better performing than more standard ones or a simple different construction?
Thank you very much for these great videos!
You picked up a station in Mandarin Chinese there, right when you started tuning those trimmer caps. Sounded like a gov't one. Was that on MW? Are there Chinese MW broadcasts from the US?
Apparently long wave broadcast DXing was a thing, often going intercontinental - google "long wave broadcast dx" and there's a page by a NZ DXer about it.
Definitely, I think it still is a thing too if you've the tuner for the job. Would be cool if Shango066 ever went to the East Coast (can't see it, and can't say as I'd blame him!) to see if any of his collection could get Europe or the UK. For the record, I used to listen to LW fairly regularly in school. Atlantic 252 if anyone else remembers them lol
You remind me of Marvin the Martian from bugs bunny cartoons and his illuduim Q-36 explosive space modulator lol
Thanks for the reference to retro Chad. 🙌
Cool radio 📻😘
Very basic looking but sounds good. 👌🏻
For the Olympic style Russian radio repair. Shango066 receives the gold!🥇
Retrochad mode activated @4:14.
Wait until you try the Selena- series of radios or the Spidola- Series. I owned both, the export versions that had the standard FM frequencies rather than the Russian frequencies for FM. These radios were heavy and bulky and, unfortunately, crappy adjusted at the Baltic factory. But once adjusted properly they were really good receivers.
Yes, those ones from the Minsk factory. I have a beautyful near mint Selena.
..я такой радиоприёмник разобрал на детальки в году 1984-м....и из них спаял свой первый детекторный приёмник....))
Аналогично)))
I like that radio. Good repair!
Your observation of selectivity is interesting: in the USSR they did not have SAMS photofacts but they had several book series of different publishing houses where they published most of consumer products schematics with principles of operation explanation, PCB, BOM and coils data, so for this radio one such issue says that first IF has bandwidth of 12-16kHz (two capacitively connected tanks) and the second IF has 30-40kHz bandwidth both at -6db, which combined is giving close to standard bandwidth. ITU's region I low broadcast band plan is 9kHz bandwith with 9кHz spacing, so my guess is the combined effect of narrower band with the relatively long dial scale are giving this selectivity.
Seems like a good DX set
News was depressing today. Good thing the radio was so nice.
Very good!!
It is really exciting how many middle wave AM stations are still active in US. In Russia LW/MW bands are almost empty, all you can hear is noise and static.
Действительно у нас тишина сейчас на этих диапазонах
The complete opposite of Grundig radios, superb build quality but diabolical selectivity! Had several Grundigs that play two stations at the same time with the aerial up, only way to get the weaker one to go away is to put the aerial down!
Very nice my friend.
Any thoughts on the recent changes in the CB world (i.e., the addition of FM transmission)? Take care, and thanks again for the videos. Peace :)
Yes FM works much better and gets around all the fuel pump and other electronic noise in today's cars. A.m. is almost completely unusable that's why everyone is going to FR-S
We use FM CB here in the UK and it's not that good.
The electronic diesel injection systems on big rigs make am radios horrible to hear when you aren,t close to the transmitter. You can take your foot off the hammer and most of the static goes away.
i have a dream that hes gonna start using spectrum analyser and frequency counter, imagine how amazing that would be
Guess that dial marked up in meters throws you a little? 1070 for KNX is around 280m
They forbid me to use this radio. So I asked them to get me the successor model but they said they couldn't find it.
Ba-dum tsss.
403 forbidden
404 not found.
You need to go back 203 models to get one that's OK.
Saludos desde Cuba
Cool radio!
Price 29 rub, printed on plastic, interesting how SSSR fought unreasonable price changes, and extraprofit from resellers.
Yeah that california assault weapons ban has been so successful
Dobri oothram👍
Here here here........here.
Hi Shang0. Love the looks of that radio. They had a much better tuner string,set up than most country's. All my very best.
Why did longwave broadcasting never take off in North America?
We were already using AM (MW) very widely, plus parts of LW is used navigation.
Nice radio. Looks very rugged.
Stations are 10khz apart in US. So the selectivity is automatically higher.
Not all, I have had a lot of cross talk on my radios on am.
👏👍 Recaiver 3,5 mhz
Interesting the top end of the dial on that radio reads 2000 so does that mean it will receive up to 2mhz? Is there anything up that high on the AM band? Nice video as usual, thanks.
Thats in meters. And 2000m falls in the LW band. If you see AB on a soviet radio its LW and CB is MW.
@@zet2900 Ah ok got it, thanks.
Very nice
Do you want a couple of free portables? Specifically a 5 inch GoldStar branded portable, and a Panasonic Ranger 505 B&W portable. I picked them up for free locally to save them from scrapping but I don't really have a usage for them. I'll cover shipping if you agree to do a video on them. The GoldStar I believe is early 70s, the Pansonic is late 1970s and looks to have been owned by some sort of industry worker as its covered in various decals for steel works related companies. Plastics and glass appear to be in good shape on both.
I wish Russia still made radios we could still get good radios if they did!
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радиоприёмник Хазар-403
Not Russian but SOVIET. USSR was multi-ethnic empire. It's like calling UK England.
13:26 shango, believe me, its wrong to tune at the low band with the capacitor-trimmer oft the input-circuit, you have to do it with the ferrite-coil (move the coil-body on the ferrite-rod a little) ! Then on the high-side oft the band with the trimmer-C again...
They don't move on these radios it's all one molded plastic piece.
@@shango066 o.k., its a bit strange for me, all radios I know have this possibility, seperate for every band... then you did right to only trim on the high side... but it works so well, good job !!
@@shango066 This part must be moved in the place with the wound coil along the core.
The part is not poured onto the core, it is fixed with wax. It is enough to warm it up with a hair dryer. ))
👍
Nice radio and you able to get them going fast. Did you hear how the fcc going to try to save the cb radio band. Let cb radio be able to use fm as well. Think there a bit late on trying to do anything to save cb radio.
Russian radios are excellent for sensitivity and selectivity... oddly, with the great selectivity they are usually also very sparing with the numbers on the dial scale !
I am just wondering if You Lost your old analog TV CH 6 in LA? I here that some other low power analog TV stations out in New york went off the Air back on July 13th. So I am wondering if you will still have Your analog Channel 6 When you next restore & fix up an old TV again. Please Let Us Know
He made a quick UA-cam post saying that Channel Six went off air.
Most likely, yes. The FCC mandated that all remaining analog low-power TV stations had until July 13 of this year (2021) to shut off their signals. I think there may have been some stations that were granted a special temporary authority to broadcast the NTSC audio carrier so that radios that can tune to 87.7 MHz can still pick the stations up while they use the remainder of the highly efficient ATSC carrier to transmit on virtual channel 6.1. With that said, Alaska has been granted a special temporary authority to broadcast analog LPTV until 2022.
From Russia with love.
I came here for the News. 8 ) *Thanks!*
Judge too sceeered to stand with his ruling, against gun ban, while being appealed.
Perhaps Zip Ties will be 'weapon' of choice against Trolls. Then, what would i do with all my Rope? 8\
Race always takes a bit of the bore out of stories for some.
Can you (or somebody) please explain the top band/scale I'm seeing on that radios face? Cuz I don't get it........
СВ means MW . 500-200 in meters, not khz !
It really bangs stations! Love the basic boxes look!
I thought people automatically switch to speak russian when you use this radio
4:15 ahaha 😂😂
4:14 "Here here here" Whatever happened to Retro Chad ?
In Soviet Russia, the radio listens to you!
"La Sonic" ... it must be from France.
You can fix all soviet radio s now You have experience now
Compare the quality of construction in this thing to the Funny Electronics radio he just worked on.
Оооо это вы ещё приемники океаны и кварци не видели)))
у меня есть
@@shango066 рад за вас, у меня океан 222 и кварц, отличное радио)
@@user-xx6gl8jj2o Океан 209 намного надежнее по конструкции, чем 222, но бесспорно у 222 элементная база более продвинутая.
@@vladimirrex1007 у 209 го переключение диапазонов вымораживает, все время этот барабан дергать приходится, а у 222 как по мне стрелочного с метра не хватает, а так оба приемника по своему хороши
The price is on the back - 29 roubles
Good radio😍😘😗😉😄🙄
The don't have airport beacons in long wave?
Do You fix old boombox es?
reason why i dont collect radios. theres alittle less than 10 am stations and about 10fm stations in my area, and i dont like a single one. its all country, pop, rock or chirch.
and most of the time i only can pick up 2 or 3 AM stations but im the mountains so moving around has big affect.
I don't think you all have enough Mexican stations
8:57 where's the beef?
Some Radios Have Good Tuners & Some Dont
Khazar
В СССР о приемниках такого типа говорили - "хорошей музыки не ловит".
In the USSR, they said about receivers of this type - "he doesn't catch good music."
Первый раз слышу такое высказывание! Я родился в Москве в 1960, радиолюбитель, и подобного афоризма не слыхал!
@@niteqllc Я 1959г. Фразу эту услышал в 1976г. на курорте Пицунда.