1980s Mep???a? (Meridian) shortwave radio
A small 1980s portable radio from the former Soviet Union (or some other country which uses the Cyrillic alphabet), with AM (mediumwave), longwave, two bands of shortwave, and the OIRT FM band (65-75 MHz). The brand name is Mep???ah, or converted into Latin letters, “Meridian.”
July 8th, 2010 at 5:23 am
What is your QTH?
July 8th, 2010 at 5:56 am
3:30 you know i am romanian
July 8th, 2010 at 6:18 am
that beeping noise on the fm band sounds like BPL or them ethernet power adapters
July 8th, 2010 at 7:34 am
Whoa where did you get a Soviet radio? eBay?
it’s a cool little radio. And very unique, those things must be quite hard to find in North America.
And if you hook a big enough antenna, you could probably pick up Canadian TV stations… well, until 2011 anyway.
July 8th, 2010 at 8:23 am
it’s more correctly spelled ‘????????’, and i have one in mint condition. oh, the nostalgia..
July 8th, 2010 at 8:40 am
oh, and it says something like ‘radio broadcast receiver / MERIDIAN RP-248 / ‘gost’ (don’t know what that’s supposed to mean, literally it’s ‘guest’) 5651-89′. maybe the last line is the serial number?
i’m not russian, so can’t help you further.
July 8th, 2010 at 8:50 am
3:24-3:29 BBC NEWS!
July 8th, 2010 at 9:05 am
Nice Chunky Radio
July 8th, 2010 at 9:58 am
WHat a weird little radio… Neat find.
JC
July 8th, 2010 at 10:15 am
So weird to see this soviet radio in the US. Even more weird is that it still works.
On the back it’s written: Radio Receiver. Meridian – RP-248.
???? means “State standard” – it means that this unit complies with State rules of how this type of devices should be assembled. 89 is the year of standard.
July 8th, 2010 at 10:35 am
I’m surpised you could get bbc on that, being so far away. This reminds me of my old Selina radio i have whitch is also russian, probably from the late 60′s or early 70′s, still running perfectly on all it’s original parts.
July 8th, 2010 at 11:18 am
Nice find man!
Thanks for posting!
July 8th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
can you pick up any number stations?
July 8th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
@wilkes85 I got it at a flea market years ago.
July 8th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Woah! That things is unusual, and cool. Looks like the battery terminals have definitely seen better days. To bad it cant pick up much…
I need to make my way over to the flea market…its been awhile.
July 8th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
I found an older tube style shortwave radio at a flea market, but, perhaps the tubes were too worn because it didn’t pick up much of anything except for very strong AM/FM stations.
July 8th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
@Jallge BBC World Service!!!??? Or just news?
July 8th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
@xmaddict i dunno
July 8th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Would have been pretty cool if it picked up a Russian shortwave station during the demo.
July 9th, 2010 at 12:49 am
That’s a pretty unique radio. What are those longwave and shortwave bands used for?
July 9th, 2010 at 8:13 am
really awsome – i wonder what that data transfer might be/
great
July 10th, 2010 at 2:13 am
Typical Russian engineering!
July 10th, 2010 at 9:38 am
BTW: That was CJBC 860 out of Toronto.
July 14th, 2010 at 12:23 am
sounds sexy.
July 20th, 2010 at 11:55 am
@Amiduffer Tubes are actually pretty reliable. It is usually the other components in the radio that drift or break down with age. Old paper and wax capacitors are pretty unreliable and almost certainly bad. Resistors can drift with age, and selenium rectifiers can fail suddenly. The set could also be out of alignment, which may be fixed by replacing all the bad parts.