03-17-2023, 06:52 PM
We had cable radio, or "Радиоточка" ("radio point" literally), which was one or two or even three programs over wire. We had it in every apartment.
During the pre-war periode, the "reproduktor" (reproducer) also called "tarelka" ("a dish, a plate") was a large cone speaker with wires, and this was the news device in absense of radios.
My family never used it, but it was there, almost always in the farthest corner of the kitchen, over the eating table.
In the simplest form it was 30V system, with the device itself being a transformer and an 8 ohm speaker.
A more or less modern (80s) cable 3-way radio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_radi...22258).jpg
The one we had (one way)
https://gorod.dp.ua/news/163373
(this article from 2019 says that in Ukraine the last "radiotochkas" are being disconnected)
The one I remember from when I was 4 or 5, on the walls of some Pharmacy.
https://www.livemaster.by/item/44870822-...-leningrad
During the pre-war periode, the "reproduktor" (reproducer) also called "tarelka" ("a dish, a plate") was a large cone speaker with wires, and this was the news device in absense of radios.
My family never used it, but it was there, almost always in the farthest corner of the kitchen, over the eating table.
In the simplest form it was 30V system, with the device itself being a transformer and an 8 ohm speaker.
A more or less modern (80s) cable 3-way radio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_radi...22258).jpg
The one we had (one way)
https://gorod.dp.ua/news/163373
(this article from 2019 says that in Ukraine the last "radiotochkas" are being disconnected)
The one I remember from when I was 4 or 5, on the walls of some Pharmacy.
https://www.livemaster.by/item/44870822-...-leningrad
People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
