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RUSSIA HAS BIG RADIO BUILDING PROGRAM
The program of the Soviet Union for the production of radio sets calls for the manufacture of 750,000 to 1,000,000 tubesets in 1937. Much work oil organization and production process will be required, and also capital investment. lubes, cases, batteries, wire, antenna cable all these details are in bad shape. The chief factories have concentrated their attention on broadcastingstation apparatus, rela.ys, and other similar equipment. For tube sets specially equipped new plants will be required, and a factory for making cases and parts of plastics.
Up to now, however, Russia hasn't distinguished itself in this field, according to a report sent out by the Commerce Department in Washington.
The maximum manufacture of radio sets in the Soviet Union was reached in 1929-30, with 167,500 sets and since then the number has dropped, but now the manufacture of receiving sets is on the level reached abroad in 1930. The best one made is roughly built, requires 7 operations in tuning in, contains some 7 kilograms of copper, and weighs altogether about 18 kilograms. The 4 tube ,,EKL-4" radio is better looking, with receiving apparatus and speaker in one case, but many sets show poor work¬ manship and faulty execution. The tubes, on which the value of the set depends, are often unsatisfactory.
During the past few years, Soviet production of sets for amateurs has not only failed to advance, but has gone back¬ ward. In 1927-28, the outout of tube sets was 22,300; In 1928-29, 49,400; in 1929-30, 167,500; in 1931, 146,000; in 1932, 29,200; and in 1933 it dropped to 22,000.
The low-tension-current section of the electrical industry has made great progress in the past 4 years, and in a number of branches has equaled the leading European and American technology, often breaking new paths of progress. The value of all the products of the radio industry in 1929-30 amounted to 117,000,000 rubles; in 1934 it had risen to four times that figure. But the production of radio sets did not share this advance.
For several years the radio factories have had great difficulty in obtaining nonferrous metals, receiving only 30 to 50 percent of their requirements. Naturally they concentrated their efforts on the work ordered by the high Government agencies, and only this year was any attention paid to small radio sets; the plan was fixed at 120,000. But even for this increase the factories proved unprepared.
Up to the present time the Ordzhonikidze plant has been the chief producer of the small output of radio sets. The industry as a whole has done hardly any laboratory and experi¬ mental work in making new sets, working out technical processes, manufacturing tools, etc. Therefore, the order to proceed to
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