Repaired Dombey 303 Домбай Россия 303 Russian Radio

[@Rezection]

USSR lasted officially until 1991. But the marking "Сделано в СССР" was used on new products up untill the 2000s because it took a while for the factories to reform their production process. So one could find radios, TVs, fridges that were made in the Russian Federation, but the products had written on them "Сделано в СССР". Nice video and cheers from the former Soviet Union.

[@ЕвгенийИванов-г4ф]

I do not agree. things of 1992 were already with a hidden inscription "made in the USSR", as well as about the price. Yes, the molds were not changed until the end of the production.

[@midge_gender_solek3314]

The USSR existed up until 1991, and some of the soviet radios/tape recorders, etc. were continued to be manufactured for some time in post-soviet Russia. They can look the same as the Soviet ones, but the markings are different, and they don't have the price tag embossed because of market reforms. This one is late Soviet, though.

[@alphabeets]

I love how Shango can talk two conversations at the same time.

[@chrisreynolds6331]

alphabeets I do this! Must be a special gift that some technicians have 😂

[@badscrew4023]

The latest Russian germanium transistors I have were made in 1992! Incredible that they were still making those that late. Good quality though, very consistent production.

[@quasarhi]

Always love to see a win like that Good Job !

[@williamchow1624]

FANTASTIC! You breathed life back into it.

[@dalegirard8453]

Like watching you fix transistor radios

[@juancarlosp.b.]

Wow another great repair without schematic. Thanks Shango for showing us the huge knowledge on electronics You got.

[@luvradios]

The diagnosis & repair of that IF coil was your “dark side of the moon”. Awesome job man.

[@MsCori76]

Amazing repair there, as always. I was 13 when this radio was made in 1989! xoxo

[@briankeller788]

There was a "CCCP" until December 1991.

[@jp040759]

The weather has been very warm the last several days. I was outside at a forest preserve and everyone and their brother were out enjoying the warm temps. Fun video. Loved the search to fix.

[@MikeB_UK]

Excellent bit of micro surgery. Love your work and the videos.

[@johnyoung4039]

Awesome repair! Awesome radio and great sound!

[@ronaldspencer547]

Well done again comrade!!!

[@brianmoore5498]

excellent. these small victories keep me alive while a madman drives the bus. thank you sincerely.

[@bigmotter001]

Nice troubleshooting Shango. Take care.

[@burntoutelectronics]

Fantastic way to end the Monday here in Australia

[@ianhand5006]

They were known as a Vega Sapphire in the UK. Very sensitive with excellent selectivity too.

[@HamsterSnr]

I like the comment about the motorcycle without the exhaust.

[@adamnail7570]

I came here to learn something. I have stayed for the snark.

[@Rfk1966]

This was one of your best. A little microsurgery and it fires right up.

[@balthromaw6305]

nice find and fix, really love watching your vids, learning alot

[@davidraezer5937]

You figure with the size of the USSR they would have to make a radio with great sensitivity. Another awesome repair view! I would send you some broken Russian electronics if I knew where to send them.

[@vancouverman4313]

It looks like the construction used in a Bush radio I have from 1962. Nicely put together and easy to work on.

[@dimmog]

Отличный ремонт. Получил удовольствие от просмотра.

[@bluepen61]

Yes, the radio has a silent background when on channel. Interesting. Nice fix!

[@Staradaj]

I have such a receiver still lying somewhere. In the 80s bought. Still working. Only once did the capacitor have to be replaced.

[@mymessylab]

Micro J-hook job..love it. Piezo filter could work with electrostatic charges from the followig transistor.

[@UDX-340]

Very satisfying repair.

[@hql400]

one more time VERY GOOD WORK With excellent results !! The piezokeramic filters are often bad, but in this case probably not. The lack of signal probed by the signal-tracer behind the filter may have two reasons, only my presumtions: - The attenuation of these filters can be quite high (10...20dB afair) but in combination with high if-amplification it doesn't matter, but the if-selectivity will be very high with this ! Perhaps the sensitivity of the signal-tracer was not high enough to get the signal on the output of the ceramic-filter? - These ceramic-filters need the right load-impedance to get the signal, perhaps the impedance has to be matched and without the proper load of the following stage there will be no signal-voltage... the death amp-stage with no voltage has not the proper BIAS and perhaps not the proper load-characteristic... I guess. As far as I remember the ceramic-filters have the best narrow-selectivity (it can be heared while the tuning ) and the filter-coils that are single-resonant-circuits (as opposed to bandfilters with 2 coupled resonant-circuits), have the better far-away-selectivity and a smaller damping, thats why both kinda filters are to be found. Perhaps with only coils and bandfilters only two if-stages had be done like in many cheapies, but HERE WE HAVE (...with shango's speaking^^) 3 stages and much more selectivity... With 3 stages you can get a if-amplification of about 2000 or more without AGC-damping

[@patsmith7710]

tracer may have loaded the filter, so no output

[@briangoldberg4439]

damn, that radio is sharp and clear.

[@rolfzetterberg971]

Then we are two who noticed that!

[@Sentinel-1]

17:37 The reason why you didn't get the signal from the output of that filter is that the filter has very narrow bandwidth from 460 to 470 kHz (center frequency is 465), greatly attenuating everything outside this window. The input signal was just above or below filter's frequency.

[@ibrahimkocaalioglu]

good diagnosis. well done 👍

[@allenrussell7998]

South Australian here. it is possible to eradicate we have had 0 cases in 12 days. hold in there

[@jrocco36]

I have two Soviet era radios I've picked up on Ebay. One is a Sport2 that works great and the other is a Khazar-304 that I got and was dead. I fixed some really bad soldering and it started working only to die about 20minutes later. When I moved a transistor I must have broken off the lead to the base of it. I got it working again now its distorted.. go figure.. Its really a crappy radio so I may never bother getting it working any better. They are fun and different to work on. Great videos as usual! thanks for posting

[@mikeathens9793]

Hi from Athens Greece! It was so funny to hear during your video the unknown Greek song: I am going to climb up a banana tree! P.S. It's a pro covid era song released in 2008!

[@noelj62]

I'm not KZbin burnt-out yet. That's because I didn't change my daily watch routine much. Same good channels like this one. Love shango066 quality content and relaxing voice and accent.

[@joseppuig925]

That white block is definitely a ceramic filter. It has insertion loss that means that some decibels are lost for the benefit of higher selectivity.

[@ModCraftAsylumRt.]

My Sokol 308 happy about it they both can make a good sound with my Sokol 403, god bless Russian radios they are just awesome can least for ever if you take care of it

[@8000Time]

Super!

[@MrChief101]

Neat microsurgery. Good looking radio in a stolid sort of way.

[@teacfan1080]

Nice video, fixed using some microscopic fine wire surgery! You mentioned how you like those Russian transistors (the ones that look like hats), there's something else sought after that's Russian, nixie tubes! I have a few nixie tube clocks, a couple use Russian nixie tubes. These were made all the way up to the early 90's when in the U.S., they were phased out by the 70's already. The IN-18 Russian nixie tube is sought after because of the digit size and can run $60 each. They are really a good quality display tube. First airplane I heard in one of your videos in a long while although I think jet travel is going to stay at a very minimal level, other than cargo flights. I've seen pictures where dozens of aircraft are just parked with nowhere to go.

[@kevtris]

dial cord stringing: the bane of every old radio restorer! why does it never work as well as factory even when you restring it EXACTLY like it was?

[@vancouverman4313]

fishing line works better than the old hemp or nylon string that they used back then.

[@a.fritzbecker8986]

It takes a certain finesse, much like repairing an 8-track cartridge, that many simply can't learn, one of the first rules is that you should always use a new cord if you can. I've had other restorers/collectors bring dial cord jobs to me to repair that they had given up on, especially ones where there is no diagram.

[@a.fritzbecker8986]

@@vancouverman4313 Braided fly backing line works best, but you have to take the stretch into account and make it a bit shorter then the original. I think the original cords were braided cotton or silk, they tend to rot with age and snap, later ones were nylon but those tend to stretch with age rather then break. Bronze cables are the best dial cords, unless they corrode they never go bad.

[@vancouverman4313]

@@a.fritzbecker8986 I remember all the hours I spent trying to restring an old 70s multibrand radio. I was eventually successful with fishing line but I will try your idea as it probably is more flexible.

[@a.fritzbecker8986]

@@vancouverman4313 If it was the monofilament stuff you were trying to use I'm not surprised, it's stiff and hard to make knots in. A retired TV repairman told me of the fly backing line, it's used fro tying flys in flay fishing, and comes in a range based on how much weight it can take. I had some of the braided stuff and ran out, it lasted years. Then I replaced it with some stuff from Walmart which is twisted like rope rather then braided, it's trickier to use but still works

[@scharkalvin]

If that filter thing is a 455khz ceramic filter, there are Murata replacements that will work. Not exact pin for pin, but you can hack it. Wow, you lucked out on that IF can. Great radio, makes the Zenith TO look like crap.

[@roynexus6]

love the capacitor jumping technique to troubleshoot IF transformer.

[@adamwheeldon]

Shango Monday 👍👍

[@tony--james]

A Shango Monday, is a good Monday!!! everyday should be Shango Day lol

[@davidlewis6670]

It was still CCCP in 1989. Soviet Coup attempt occurred in 1991. I was a junior in HS at the time. Enjoy your videos here in southeast Pennsylvania.

[@cashawX10]

I found a box full of these in 1992 in the UK at a small market. The plastic construction felt minimal and they were selling them for £5 each. I laughed and moved on.. I have totally regretted it ever since, especially as I have a bunch of Soviet radios now and their performance and sound quality is superb ! Just never try to work on them !

[@КАНАЛПЕРЕЕХАЛПриносимсвоиизвин]

Ну ничего себе. Я как русский зритель канала удивлён.

[@TheSystemerr]

Я смотрю Шанго в основном из-за его юморных комментариев по ходу видео ;) I watch Shango mainly because of its funny comments during the video ;)

[@konstantins7344]

Мы все в шоке. Ютуб вообще посоветовал мне у него про телевизоры Адмирал посмотреть почему-то.

[@MrHeem94]

My favorite part was when you dwelled on the super loud squealing. If we could regularly get some more of those in your videos that would be just great. Also, if possible, could you make sure the volume is maxed out at all times? THX.

[@woodyTM]

deader than a toddler in a hot car. I'm absolutely losing it hahaha

[@igorperuchi2114]

Pure Shango!

[@craignehring]

I think I too would LOVE a Russian radio. I have one of their Geiger counters. They had it going on, still do. Wow it sure does pay to trouble shoot, what a great save by the master agent 006. Happy Monday all ya all

[@ChristiRich]

Sometimes, self doubt is a part of the repair process.

[@tomadkins2866]

Sometimes?

[@rolfsinkgraven]

Very good job.

[@TechneMoira]

1989 is a fatatidic date, because that's the year when the Iron Curtain fell (actually in november that year, in Berlin). The Soviet Union really started to fall apart at that point and Gorbachev launched his Glasnost policy (openness policy). So in a sense, what you have there is a small piece of history. I wouldn't be astonished if that radio was built in Eastern Germany which was still part of the Soviet Union (until november 1989) Great find! Thanks for sharing your video P.S.: CCCP really stands for USSR in cyrillic

[@becconvideo]

I don't think so. East German products had a "Made in GDR" and before 1972 even "Made in Germany" which was the reason why West German products of that era often have a "Made in W. Germany" stamp.

[@docnele]

Price on it is stated as 56 roubles (prices were fixed and stamped onto products!). If it was from 1986, it was then 73,5 U.S. dollars. It would cost 175$ today. Expensive stuff! ;)

[@mrjason9382]

Thanks for shareing

[@1959Berre]

Hi Shango, nice video. Just to let you know the word "piezo" is pronounced "pee-ed-zo". ) In my language we spell it "piëzo", the two dots on top meaning the e and I are two separate vowels. Keep up the good job, thank you for the video.

[@crtsaretubular3940]

Looks like the wire corroded behind the “iron” curtain

[@teslakovalaborator]

Lmao

[@greengrayradio1394]

Very good! You repaired the bad IFT, and it seems the radio plays well (at least on broadcast band) This must have cost a lot when new, seems they spared nothing on the schematic (if for another model, but circuit seems a lot like yours) There also was a signed certificate from the inspection (OTK).. I also repaired a tiny IFT with an open winding from a Philips radio once, not fun..

[@MikhailKulkov]

First digit in "303" means it is 3rd class of quality and complexity. "0" was highest and "4" was lowest. All Soviet radios, TVs, etc. were classified.

[@mrnmrn1]

Cool, thanks for the info. And what the other two numbers mean? Just a designator? (Edit: typo)

[@MikhailKulkov]

@@mrnmrn1 Often it can mean number of model in time, for example after 303 next modification might be 304. But always in the same class, never 204 or 404. Anyway it means nothing for customer and can be any that manufacturer decided.

[@garp32]

That was some amazing $hit right there Shango. Nice job trouble shooting! 2 thumbs up! One for the repair, the other for the toddler comment 🤦‍♂️😂😂

[@huntercarver1851]

Love it!

[@grlg2]

Very good Job. Reminds me of the glue that becomes conductive on the Sony Betamax head drum hall sensors. Cheers.

[@gerardcarriera7052]

Great job, great video comrade!

[@tormozedison952]

Note that AM IF in Soviet receivers is 465 KHz, not 455. FM IF is 8,4 MHz in older tube units, 6,5 MHz in newer tube units, 10,7 MHz in solid state units.

[@moshezaharia4666]

Hi Shango, well done with this IF can! I don’t know why shortwave is quiet in your area, where I live (city of Be’er Sheva, Israel), shortwave is very alive all day long and at evenings, 60 meters up to 31 meters is very packed. Maybe the radio needs alignment to wake it up (but I guess no alignment instructions...).

[@michaelturner4457]

Not only did shortwave seem deaf. But the longwave band was picking up a lot of AM mediumwave stations. Which it shouldn't do. The image rejection seems to be very poor on that band. Longwave in the US has only got beacons I think, and isn't used for broadcast stations.

[@FlatBroke612]

Gas the bikes, race car now

[@chevycaprice87]

Yay! Russian stuff! 18:23 that white box smile at you :)

[@markiangooley]

CCCP is of course SSSR in non-Cyrillic lettering

[@5roundsrapid263]

Soyuz Sovetsky Socialisti Respublika. Or in French, URSS...😆

[@Jose_Pointero]

Great job on the coil repair, that must've been tedious.

[@tinicum54]

I have had 2 of those B&W power supplies since the mid 80's.

[@Hunter-xy6qq]

SHANGO066 is the coolest tech on the block. 😎

[@bogywankenobi3959]

Some people must be doing nothing but waiting for your monday morning upload . . . like me. I clicked in by dumb luck at 2 views and 40 minutes later it was at 1267 views. Not bad for a very niche audience.

[@shango066]

Electronics and vintage electronics maybe Niche but it's a worldwide niche interest.

[@bogywankenobi3959]

@@shango066 I hope that you don't think that I was trying to slight you. I wasn't. It is impressive as hell to me that you can get 1260+ views in the time it takes me to watch the video. And FWIW, I look forward to getting up Monday mornings just to see what you have uploaded. Keep it all up.

[@Tobinindustrial]

Nice gift. That was a kind gesture... Would this be what you would consider a kit radio? Thanks for sharing.

[@tomadkins2866]

Dang, Shango. I've never heard you say that you REALLY like any piece of equipment as much as you did this radio. Dare I say, you're actually a little excited to have it? Enjoy it, sir. Some astute viewer noticed what you like and sent it along as a thank you for the consistently good, quality content that you put up. I'd like to do the same, but most of my stuff is mundane crap that you've already covered, lol. Thanks a lot, though, for the more consistent videos recently.You stepped up when it was needed. I'm an "essential" worker and am out among hoards of regular folks every day. I'm not really afraid of the 'rona, but the stress level is pretty damn high at work. A Shango066 video on Sunday or Monday helps me keep grounded and De-stressed. Yeah, I've got You Tube burnout. I've seen everything else of any value to me on YT, in my off hours. I think I may have reached the end of You Tube.? However, You and a handful of other great You Tubers keep it interesting and educational by stepping up and posting more through this current ...thing. Thanks for that!

[@shango066]

just relax man, no need to stress and stroke out, just roll with it

[@angryshoebox]

What a cool radio. It's interesting that for a late-'80s radio it's all discrete transistors, no ICs. Maybe in Soviet-era Russia ICs were reserved for military & higher-tech applications rather than civilian portable radios.

[@Anodum]

rw6ase.narod.ru/00/rp_p1/newskiy.html integrated radio receivers were in the USSR, just this model Россия or Домбай 301...303 has a long history (1970), a transformer amplifier with germanium transistors was very simple and economical for a battery. In the USSR, they did not strive to make new models, usually factories producing electronics made other state products, and consumer electronics was just a small addition "to the load", "for show in the plan"

[@cttv90108]

private aviation must be coming back in your area but for the commercial carriers into LAX it's much less than usual. I usually get one every few minutes around here.

[@5roundsrapid263]

He lives near an Air Force base. I work near a commercial airport, and it’s still a ghost town.

[@skuula]

It looks that that piezo filter thing got some DC bias through the base of that transistor. Could that explain why the missing collector connection on same transistor made the filter go dead?

[@tony--james]

awesome video ( as always) but this radio bothers my OCD lol the second non speaker circle, almost looks like it wants to be 2 speaker stereo, but isn't , maybe some are??

[@johnyoung4039]

It seems like that filter filters out the excess signals

[@CATech1138]

micro work in a macro world...i have done several single strand repairs similar to what you did and have dealt with some multi strand litz type wire in an early bluetooth enabled motorcycle helmet transceiver...soldering hair fine wires in tight spaces is a challenge that gives a real sense of accomplishment....i really like your work and your commentary is priceless but where's your swastika hand tattoos?

[@melissahermsen5630]

Good video as always. Technical details and the fix have been commented on enuff. So maybe a comment on your signal tracer; I would suggest to sharpen the tip on the probe of the signal tracer to a rather fine point. I tend to do that to all probes and test leads I use, so that they more easily pierce thru oxide layers or varnish and less easily slip off. Also slip a small piece of shrink tubing over the rest of the exposed metal of the probe tip. Looked like you were shorting out adjacent component legs of these red square ceramic caps while going for the transistor legs from the top side of the board.

[@Telewaifus]

I had a similar problem on a soviet TV. The pilot transformer of the horizontal output transistor was open due to a wire corrosion near the pin. I think that the plastic had some strange reaction with the copper.

[@a.fritzbecker8986]

It could be whatever flux they used, or glues. That brown goop you find inside 1970s era electronics is notorious for becoming conductive, and should be removed whenever possible.

[@DreamGrandDragon]

Finally I sense of normalcy when a plane goes by and sound like it's going to crash in your filming location.

[@ermyvids]

Wow, what a great video

[@X-OR_]

Great video Comrade !

[@fanofoldfans9238]

Even better than a Vitamin B12 shot.

[@Dr_Reason]

Have you tried model airplane kevlar string for the dial cord? I have used it to repair shift indicators in cars.

[@barryfairwood2174]

Great viedo SHANGO066 I bought a POCCNR 203-1 in Tallinn Estonia 5 years ago at the flea market. 2 bad elec. Caps Current drain 7.5 ma, no signal. Soviets were reluctant to sell H.F. radios to their people. No listening to Radio Liberty, VOA, or BBC, during the cold war. Now in Russia no LW, MW, or shortwave domestic teansmissions. Just FM.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

Did they ban them?

[@akkudakkupl]

Damned sad that we don't have all that many AM stations in the Europe (are there any at all?) :-(

[@stevexray6253]

I wonder if they had a stereo version of that radio. It looks like there's a knockout for another speaker.

[@cinrambrad]

Did all this guys vintage televisions disappear..........................

[@mcsniper77]

They used large can Ge tranies right to the fall of the USSR. As a pedal builder I say thank god for the cold war and the Soviets for building Ge transistors into the 1990's. Their mini and sub mini tubes are outstanding as well. I believe the USSR fell in 1991. The part stamps aren't going to change when the regime does.

[@becconvideo]

Funny to see that there was still a market for AM only radios in 1989. If it had FM it would have been the OIRT band (somewhere in the 65-73Mhz) not compatible with the rest of the world. I still have a VEF 206 here which served as a decend world shortwave receiver until the end of the Wall.

[@jaapverhoeven422]

It says: 'price 59 rubles' on the back. Literally the factory price :)

[@ЕвгенийИванов-г4ф]

the final price. there was no trade allowance. unless for large furniture or household appliances. Price "belt" I, II, III

[@dipl100qwer6]

Approx. 40$

[@ЕвгенийИванов-г4ф]

@@dipl100qwer6 or ½ of average month salary

[@5roundsrapid263]

They didn’t want people to make a profit, obviously.

[@chevycaprice87]

In soviet Russia, only the government had the right to do some profit. If you get some profit, the government will take it away, then buy you a one-way ticket to go to the construction of Baikal-Amur mainline in Syberia where Домбай-303 will become your only connection with civilization.

[@Groove1024]

nice video as usually. for the repair in the IF can you can use nail varnish the low price one you will never offer to a woman because it might be dangerous who know... but for that job it's ok it will do the job against short contacts

[@rogertyler3237]

That Radio Is A Keeper.

[@Nikita_Osipoff]

Удивительно )) Привет из России!

[@5roundsrapid263]

26:07 Its basically “Phi” in Greek, a “ph” sound. That’s where most of the Cyrillic alphabet comes from.

[@a.fritzbecker8986]

Devised by one Saint Cyrill, with much influence from Byzantium. Roman/Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic letters were all derived from the Phoenician alphabet, so there are some letters in common between all three.

[@5roundsrapid263]

A. Fritz Becker Phonetics come from Phoenicia, obviously! The Russians had no way to write their language until Cyril developed an alphabet.

[@beefchicken]

HOOCT AWN FONIKS WURKT FOR ME