{"id":53655,"date":"2022-08-11T07:09:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T11:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=53655"},"modified":"2022-08-11T07:09:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T11:09:46","slug":"video-how-vef-radios-were-made-in-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/video-how-vef-radios-were-made-in-1936\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: How VEF radios were made in 1936"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VEF-Logo-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53657\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VEF-Logo-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"1143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VEF-Logo-1.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VEF-Logo-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VEF-Logo-1-1021x1024.jpeg 1021w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VEF-Logo-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VEF-Logo-1-768x770.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VEF-Logo-1-624x626.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mike Hansgen, who shares this video showing how radios were made in the VEF (Valsts elektrotehniska Fabrika) factory in Riga, Latvia in 1936:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/01o1zClYapA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/01o1zClYapA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike Hansgen, who shares this video showing how radios were made in the VEF (Valsts elektrotehniska Fabrika) factory in Riga, Latvia in 1936: Click here to view on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,304,4796],"tags":[3422,9922,9923,4093,681],"class_list":["post-53655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos","category-vintage-radio","tag-mike-k8rat","tag-valsts-elektrotehniska-fabrika","tag-vef","tag-videos","tag-vintage-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dXp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49697,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/santiago-spots-a-soviet-era-portable-in-the-queens-gambit\/","url_meta":{"origin":53655,"position":0},"title":"Santiago spots a Soviet-era portable in &#8220;The Queen&#8217;s Gambit&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"July 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Santiago Roland (CX1DR), who writes: Hi Thomas, I'm a reader of your blog since 2015 and i was looking for movies showing shortwave radio models. 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Mike writes: That is a nice collection of novelty radios. I have a few of them but tend to focus on early production transistors. 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