[Dream] Russian technical translator

[Vladimir Mu]

I can help.  Send your Russki pages to me.

P.S. There isn't much silicon or germanium in Russia, that's why the  
tube designs got to be so advanced. We just never had transistors  
that were powerful or stable enough.  We were using tube based TV  
sets until the very late 80's.  Took the fuckers 5 minutes to heat  
up.  The tubes in radars of the MiG-25 produced so much heat, that  
they (the radars) were alcohol-cooled.  Needless to say, the presence  
of 250 liters of pure ethanol on board of each fighter could not  
possibly alleviate any potential alcoholism issues in the Air Force.

-vm

On Mar 10, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Mark wrote:

>
> Remember a few posts back someone was looking for someone who spoke
> French??  Well, I'm looking for someone who can read Russian and has
> a basic understanding of electronics.  Why??  Well, there are few
> sources on the internet that have information on Russian tubes that I
> cannot find in English.
>
> Apparently, there are Russian miniature tubes that use very little
> power.  They draw only 13mA of heater current, as opposed to the 300mA
> (as much power as entire analogue synth) used by American and Western
> European tubes with similar functions.  These tubes were used in MIG
> jet fighters, and are now available on the surplus market.  Why did
> the USSR use vacuum tubes for avionics??  I'm guessing it was because
> unlike transistors, tubes are more likely to survive the radiation
> from a nuclear bomb.
>
> So I'm looking for someone who can navigate a few web sites, and
> translate the data sheet.  It isn't much information.  I just need
> the pin outs and component values for a couple of tubes.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
> Also, on an unrelated note here are a couple of websites about
> Russian synthesizers, including the Polyvoks, which used an extremely
> unique VCF design that did not use capacitors:
>
> http://analogik.com/instrument_polivoks.asp
>
> http://www.waf80.de/polivoks/content.html
>
> http://www.muztech.com/company.php
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> http://www.ruskeys.net/
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> http://www.sequencer.de/moogulatorium/synthesizer_russian.html
>
> Apparently, there are now software emulations of Russian synths:
> http://y0u-file.narod.ru/
>
> I do not know if any of them used tubes.  Perhaps there is more
> information on some Russian language websites I can't understand.
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