[BrendaAnnD]

Morzh,

You pointed out one of these radios in another thread a while back. I went and found one to buy, and just got it in today. I'm a little disappointed that it's not a true convertible/portable. Can you tell me how to connect it to battery power so I can check it out?

Thanks for your time.

[morzh]

I could find out for you, I don't have one myself.
My friend had one, can try to ask.

I suspect though it is "auto" since it fit some of the Soviet cars' radio compartment. I am not sure it would connect to the battery, it had its own batteries, probably D.

[BrendaAnnD]

It has no battery compartment, unless there was one that attached to the bottom of the radio. I'd sure like to see this one up and running. I love the style and it does seem to be quite well designed and built.

[morzh]

Can you put photos on?

As I remember Ural-auto, it is a rather slim box with the scale (dial) and the knobs on the narrow top part which otherwise, had it not be a car radio, would be on the wide side as with most transistor hi-end portables.

But the whole idea of that radio was that you have it as a car radio and next thing you do is you pull it out and carry it as you regular portable radio. So you don't risk it stolen from you, plus somewhere outdoors you do not have to keep your car's doors open, you simply enjoy it as you would a regular radio.

http://www.rw6ase.narod.ru/000/rprl_p/ural_awto09.jpg

if you look in this pic (This is Ural-Auto) there is a connector for the car, and there is the battery compartment for D size (4 D or what we called them 373 type).


the radio was created specifically for cars like "Moskvich 408" or "Moskvich 412", hence the connector and the shape.

This is the video with Ural Auto 2 .
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xt86lu_...%BE-2_tech


OK, so you have Ural-Auto-2. I think when autonomous it is fed from a special attached power block with 6 D batteries.

This is the picture. You can see the addition to the bottom.

http://www.rw6ase-dok1.narod.ru/f/ural_awto2_7.jpg


And this one is without it.

http://www.rw6ase-dok1.narod.ru/f/ural_awto2_1.jpg


Also, Ural Auto 2 is a michrochip radio, not all transistor really. So if a microchip is gone you are screwed. Not with the original Ural Auto.

[BrendaAnnD]

Mine is similar to your Ural Auto 2, but there are cosmetic differences. I guess I'm missing the battery compartment.

   

   

[morzh]

There obviously were several cosmetic versions of UA2.

[Eliot Ness]

Brenda, there is a Ural Auto 2 similar to yours currently on eBay. Interestingly this one has the locking adapter that fits the car dash. It also looks like it has a jack on the side where you can power it with a 9V adapter (seller states the center pin is "-"):

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Soviet-R...1255698705

[Image: http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDgwWDY0MA==/$...~~60_3.JPG]

Below is a Russian site with more info and pictures:

http://rw6ase.narod.ru/000/rprl_p1/ural_awto2.html

I like your radio, hope you figure out an easy way to power it up.

[BrendaAnnD]

I see so many variations on the theme of these radios. For instance, on mine, there is (possibly) a power jack on the side like on the one above.. but it's a 2.5mm phone plug. Above that on mine is a record output. I think the top one is still a ground. I may try to find a 2.5mm plug for one of my universal power supplies and try that. Mine doesn't have a voltage indicated on it.

[morzh]

Brenda

I could put a question on the Russian website, about your version.

Give me the exact list of the questions you have, I will translate them and put them there.

[sam]

OH great now he wants to leak all the radio info to Russia

[BrendaAnnD]

Morzh,

Mainly I just need to find out how to put power to it, and what voltage, and perhaps whether I can locate a battery pack to go with it. Don't need to be able to read Russian to figure out the controls.

[BrendaAnnD]

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.

[morzh]

Good thing is, you won't have to do much if it works. Maybe (not even sure - it is a battery radio) an electrolytic or two.....(Ii did not look up the sch).
You perhaps will have to clean / lubricate the pushbuttons.

Which is nothing - older radios like VEF used drums with gozillions of those silver-coated small spherical contacts against leaf spring contacts, also silver coated, and those oxidized like crazy. They used the same technique in TV "PTK" (russian term) block (the channel selector) and boy did they give grief after a couple of years, especially when the blocks were made from sulfur-containing plastics.....

[morzh]

Brenda,

I take it you went to the same site rw6ase.narod.ru where I found the first two links I posted here.
The folks from the Russian site also pointed me to this same site.

Just in case from the replies:
pin 1-"+"
pins 5,6- "-"

I guess you are doing just fine.

[morzh]

One of the answers:

Brenda,

the 373 elements that were in use in the Soviet union and were the size of today's D elements had very low (0.7Ah) capacity.
This could be substituted by today's 9V alcaline battery which is 0.56Ah.
If you use a Lithium 9V battery it is 1.2Ah.

It is a small battery and could fit inside the radio

http://radionostalgia.ca/forum/download/...&mode=view