Portable transistor radio receiver `` Sokol RP-204 ''.
Portable radio receivers and radios on p / p.DomesticSince 1991, the Sokol RP-204 portable transistor radio receiver has been produced by the Moscow PO Temp. In the early nineties, the 20th century, the collapse of the USSR began. Many factories producing radio equipment were forced to reduce its output, redesign or completely close any production due to a sharply falling demand for radio products and for other technical reasons. Inexpensive foreign radio equipment, mostly from China, including receivers, began to arrive in the country en masse. In order to somehow stay afloat and interest buyers in domestic radio equipment, many radio factories began to overestimate the degree of complexity of the models. This happened with the Sokol RP-204 radio receiver, in fact, it is the Sokol-304 radio receiver produced in 1985, which, in turn, has been produced since 1977 under the name Sokol-404, and since then, neither its design, nor design, nor the electrical circuit has changed. Increasing the complexity (class) of the devices worked, but for a very short time. Inflation was raging in the country and for the money that the plant spent on the production of one device, after a couple of weeks it could not purchase even 10% of the components for this device, moreover, the stock of parts was running out and the connections of subcontractors were broken. There was an attempt to export the radio to several countries of the world, while the inscriptions on the packaging and in the instructions were in English.
