It is a CD/MP3 player, FM and AM radio, 6 CD changer, an auxiliary port, etc..
The rest is in the video below.
Also, as I noted in the video above, the radio itself very capable I have been using it to do my very amateur FM and AM scans and also some DXing on the Medium Waves.
On March 18-19, 2016 I surfed Moscow's FM band 87.5 - 108.0 MHz and did an FM station count.
During my first attempt I counted 36 stations and the memory in my point-and-click overflowed with 102-105 MHz not yet covered.
A day after the above attempt I had another FM session and used my cell phone with more memory and this time the result was 44 stations.
And I was using auto-tune on a Sony home component stereo, a 2002 Sony MHC RG40, and at least a couple more stations were skipped over by said autotune, so the actual number is closer to 50.
Only one Moscow FM station - Capital FM @ 105.20 - broadcasts in English.
Interestingly, while the FM band in Moscow is as full as in any other major world city and there is also an extension of it - the Russian UKW band, the AM band has on the other hand become almost completely depopulated in recent years with only a couple of stations, well, maybe four or three but most of them broadcasting only part of the day and not every day of the week at that.
VreMax: Moscow FM Surfing: Radio being one of my hobbies, yesterday I decided to surf Moscow's FM band 87.5 - 108.0 MHz and do a station count. During my firs...
Here is an "innovative" use of my Sony PSP console for radio surfing purposes even if the radio is kind of fictional.
The objective here is to drive my car whilst surfing radio stations from the GTA Liberty City Stories game for the PSP especially and also from the GTA Vice City Stories.
Just like you did in the game (minus the mayhem).
In case the explanation in the video isn't clear, here is how I do it again.
To connect my Sony PSP console to my Ford Sony Radio I use the latter's auxiliary input as it doesn't have any other way of connectivity being a 2008 radio.
I plug the cord into the headphones out on the PSP. Then I select the auxiliary input to play on the radio and we are all set!
To play radio stations in the game you don't have to be actively playing the game. What you do is go to the Options Screen by pressing Start once the game is running, then select Audio, and on the Audio screen you can, among other things, make the in-game radio stations play in full and you can cycle between them using the left and right directional buttons on the PSP.
So I set it like that and leave the PSP on the passenger's seat and drive to that famous radio!
I prefer Liberty City radio more. My favorites stations are Radio Del Mundo, Flashback FM, Rise FM with DJ Sanchez but I listen to all of them.
Perfect for a long trip, a station plays for about 40 minutes and starts all over again.
Here is a Ritmix RPR-7011 portable AM FM SW1,2 radio bought by me a week back.
Ritmix is a local Russian brand selling electronic goods made for it in China and earlier in South Korea and may be other places.
A video of my newly acquired Ritmix RPR-7011 which is a simple radio but not without pleasant surprises, of which after the video.
As I say Ritmix places orders in China, and I don't know about its other products, but some of its radios are rebadged versions of more or less well-known Degen and Tecsun models.
And both Degen and Tecsun are established names in enthusiast radio now.
In fact, you can see in the video that the description on the box says this radio is even made by Tecsun General Electric Manufacture (although it is a Degen model). Other Ritmix radios may be made by different manufacturers.
The Russian radio hobbyist community has established that this Ritmix RPR-7011 is the rebadged Degen DE 319.
But there is more, the previous model of this Ritmix radio was apparently a clone of the Degen DE 319A, an unremarkable analog radio, but this current model is the enhanced Degen DE 319 DSP.
DSP stands for digital signal processing and DSP technology ensures stable reception, tuning and sound and is encased in a DSP microchip developed by Silicon Labs.
There are several hints that it is a DSP model and one of them is the little inscription you can see on the radio dial if you look at it at an angle.
I don't know that much about radio technology being mainly a consumer of finished products but apparently there is a si4836 microchip (si4836 PDF) connected to all bands, so this radio combines analog radio with digital tuning and signal processing.
Good for tuning to FM stations here in Moscow where the FM band is literally crammed full with transmitters.
Another bonus is it has a three-LED flash light on one side, see the video.
VreMax: Ritmix RPR-7011 AM FM SW 1-2 Radio: Now writing about a new addition to my collection of radios . Here is a Ritmix RPR-7011 portable AM FM SW1,2 radio bought by me a week bac...
Finishing organizing my past radio related posts by transferring them to this new all-radio blog of mine from my other
blog - Vremax where they originally appeared.
Finishing organizing my past radio related posts by transferring them to this new all-radio blog of mine from my other
blog - Vremax where they originally appeared.
Quoting below.
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The last 2015 QSL that I got, which is from First Channel, Ukraine National Radio.
Letter.
Stamps.
QSL card.
As you can see it is for MW (AM) reception on my car radio.
VreMax: QSL - Ukraine National Radio: The last 2015 QSL that I got, which is from First Channel, Ukraine National Radio. Letter. Stamps. QSL card. As you can ...
On this page you can listen to and control a short-wave receiver located at the amateur radio club
ETGD at the
University of Twente.
In contrast to other web-controlled receivers, this receiver can be tuned by multiple
users simultaneously, thanks to the use of Software-Defined Radio.
Almost done organizing my past radio related posts by transferring them to this new all-radio blog of mine from my other
blog - Vremax where they originally appeared.
Now quoting again below.
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MW DX: using my car radio I was able to hear in Moscow some Ukrainian radio at 549 kHz on Sat Dec 5, 2015 at about 20:00 (SSS).
Reception was usable but the signal tended to disappear after about 5 minutes and then reappear.
The broadcast was in Ukrainian.
This station apparently broadcasts out of Nikolaev, in the south of the Ukraine, which is over 1,000 km away from Moscow, and is primarily targeting the Russians in the Crimea with Ukrainian government propaganda.
VreMax: MW DX: Ukrainian Radio in Moscow: MW DX: using my in-car radio I was able to hear in Moscow some Ukrainian radio at 549 kHz on Sat Dec 5, 2015 at about 20:00 (SSS). ...
Medium wave DXing on March 26, 2016, Moscow time on video, 837 kHz UKR Ukrainske Radio 1 out of Taranovka (wherever that is) heard on a car radio in Moscow
Organizing my past radio related posts by transferring them to this new all-radio blog of mine from my other
blog - Vremax where they originally appeared.
Original content is coming soon but for now quoting again below.
As I didn't find a reception report submit section on the CRI website, I just sent them an e-mail and it worked and there was even a little conversation including some mild argument about whether I reported correct times for my receptions.
I just used a reception report form that I found online.
This is the envelope that my CRI QSL card came in.
In fact, the envelope contained not just a requested QSL card but a nice little bundle of other goodies.
A QSL card, a CRI sticker (I asked for one too) and three curious things like paper appliques figures or something. Must be traditional Chinese, nice too.
CRI sticker.
The CRI sticker reverse.
A QSL card from China Radio International.
It features China's rare endangered animals which are in this case the Saiga, I think.
Still organizing my past radio related posts by transferring them to this new all-radio blog of mine from my other
blog - Vremax where they originally appeared.
Original content is coming soon but for now quoting again below.
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I received a QSL card from World Harvest Radio International!
As I reported in this entry on this blog, on September 27, 2015 at 00.00 UTC at a location 100 km north of Moscow, I was able to tune in to a WHRI broadcast on my Grundig Yacht Boy 80 portable shortwave receiver and got a pretty good reception as far as shortwaves go.
On October 3, I found their website and submitted my report using a form on the website... and earlier this week I got this nice QSL card in my mail box!
Continuing to organize my past radio related posts by transferring them to this new all-radio blog of mine from my other
blog - Vremax where they originally appeared.
Original content is coming soon but for now quoting again below.
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The last shortwave listening session at dacha for this year as the summer season is now truly over.
Lots of CRI as usual.
CRI on three frequencies 6019, 9469, 9676 kHz (+- 3 kHz), reception average to poor, October 19, 2015.
I get clear CRI broadcast reception on my Grundig Yacht Boy 80 most of the time.
Whenever I listen to shortwave, CRI is always there and usually on multiple frequencies and very good quality, which is to be commended. Programming is also excellent.
However I also discovered that I got CRI broadcasts at times and frequencies not necessarily on that list.
VreMax: 2015 CRI Frequencies: In case someone is interested, here is the 2015 Shortwave Schedule by China Radio International. 2015年夏季对外频率时间表 - BROADCAST TIMES AND F...
Continuing to organize my past radio related posts by transferring them to this new all-radio blog of mine from my other
blog - Vremax where they originally appeared.
Original content is coming soon but for now quoting again below.
Reception is rather good given the circumstances and the radio I use, a mid-of-the-range Grundig Yacht Boy 80, nothing fancy.
It identifies itself at about 5:18 in the video above.
Frequency: 5920 kHz
I wonder where the broadcast comes from so I can here it so good in Moscow.
According to wikipedia, it is Angel 2 service of WHRI which is supposed to be re-transmitted from Palau?
Or is it, more likely, re-transmitted from somewhere in Eastern Europe?
Completed a reception report form on the WHR website, anxiously awaiting a QSL card. Will post on this blog when (and if) I get one.
VreMax: Shortwave: World Harvest Radio: Listened in on shortwave on 27/09/2015 at my Dacha in the woods (and swamps) about 100 km north of Moscow. New to me, World Harvest Radio ...
Radio No. 3 is this 1999 VERAS RP 225 Radio Receiver, made in Grodno, Belarus.
Veras radios made by the Grodno Radio Factory (which is no more, thank you international capitalists) were clones of the famous Soviet-era OKEAN (meaning Ocean) radios.
Here it is against the original box it came in.
It says Grodno Radiopribor Factory, the maker of this fine radio.
The box also shows the date of manufacture - 05.1996. And I think I bought in early 1999 in Moscow.
It cost me RUB 500, i.e. about 20 in dead presidents which is dirt cheap for a capable post-WWII type analog tuner, though outmoded and outdated at the time, of course. Still that's the way I like them.
