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analogdial · August 29th 16, 06:56 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

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On Monday, August 29, 2016 at 6:37:19 AM UTC-7, analogdial wrote:
Anyone else have Sputnik radios?
I think it would be really cool to get a Soviet short wave radio from that era. It is pretty well documented that the July/August/September 1957 issues of "Radio" magazine (for ham radio hobbyists in the USSR) had information on the upcoming launch and gave the frequencies to monitor the telemetry (around 20 Mc/s). They successfully kept that information from the Americans by publishing the magazines in Russian instead of English.

At the end of the Russian Woodpecker documentary, the protaganist is
tuning a Euro style piano key radio with the various markings such as
cities and bands written in Cyrillic. Very cool! If it were a Grundig
or something like that, I'd place it in the late 50s to mid 60s time
period. I have no good idea what time period the Soviets used that
switch style.

Didn't know the Soviets published an advance notice on the Sputnik
launch. I had the impression that the CIA was translating all that
stuff. Maybe they did and didn't tell anybody outside the loop. Or
maybe it was sitting in a low priority pile for later.