{"id":34480,"date":"2018-10-14T11:21:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T15:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=34480"},"modified":"2018-10-14T11:24:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T15:24:20","slug":"any-favorite-soviet-era-radios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/any-favorite-soviet-era-radios\/","title":{"rendered":"Any favorite Soviet era radios?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A vintage radio from Kim Andre Elliott’s collection.<\/p><\/div>\n

I was just chatting with my buddy Dave Cripe (NM0S) who recently snagged a cool Soviet-era vintage portable radio at ShopGoodwill.com<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s a beauty:<\/p>\n

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I’ve always been fascinated with Soviet and Eastern European designs from the 60s, 70s and 80s, but I’ll be the first to admit that I know little-to-nothing about them.<\/p>\n

I’m curious if any readers could shed light on some of their favorites makes and models?\u00a0 Are there any exceptional performers? Any that are highly valued?\u00a0 If you have photos, consider sharing them as well.\u00a0Please comment!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was just chatting with my buddy Dave Cripe (NM0S) who recently snagged a cool Soviet-era vintage portable radio at ShopGoodwill.com.\u00a0 It’s a beauty: I’ve always been fascinated with Soviet and Eastern European designs from the 60s, 70s and 80s, but I’ll be the first to admit that I know little-to-nothing about them. I’m curious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,288,43,4796],"tags":[7356,4501,7357,7355,4289,681],"class_list":["post-34480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","category-vintage-radio","tag-cold-war-radios","tag-dave-cripe-nm0s","tag-eastern-european-radios","tag-soviet-radio","tag-soviet-union","tag-vintage-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8Y8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32036,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/2018-arrl-midwest-convention-stem-techfest-august-4-5-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":34480,"position":0},"title":"2018 ARRL Midwest Convention STEM TechFest: August 4 & 5, 2018","author":"Thomas","date":"May 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Cripe (NM0S) for sharing the flyer above announcing the first annual Midwest STEM TechFest. 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