All-wave communication radio `` Volna-K '' (plus options).
Receiving and transmitting radio equipment.The all-wave communication radio "Volna-K" (plus variants) was produced from 1959 to 1985 by the Petropavlovsk radio plant named after S.M. Kirov. Volna-K is a special telephone and telegraph radio receiver for radio communication on ships of coastal and long-distance navigation and as an auxiliary receiver in the Navy. The receiver has 16 tubes and operates in 9 sub-bands, covering frequencies from 12 KHz to 23 MHz. The receiver has a control loudspeaker, headphone jacks. A double conversion of frequency and a step change in the passband of the second IF of 0.5, 1.5 and 6 KHz are applied. The sensitivity of the radio receiver depends on the ranges and lies in the range from 3 to 10 µV. Power supply from the AC mains or DC through the OP-120 converter. Receiver dimensions 350x410x420 mm. Weight 36 kg. There were six variants of the receiver: Volna-K, Volna-KT - tropical, Volna-K1, Volna-K1 - tropical, "Volna-K2 (the receiver body is made of aluminum alloy) and Volna-3". Radio receivers in 6 versions differed in frequency gaps between ranges, narrowed ranges, the presence or absence of various service functions. More detailed information about the variants of "Volna-K" radio receivers is available on the Internet.
