R-116

VHF Radiostation

Lamp portable FM radio station, which is a simplified counterpart of the radio station R-106, used at lower levels of command. He entered service in the Soviet Union in 1950. She was the last mass-produced portable radio station of the Warsaw Pact land forces, utilizing amplitude modulation.

Poland also produced at plants in Dzierżoniow until the late 50's and 60's of the last century. In the 60s massively withdrawn from service and replaced with radios R-126.

TECHNICAL DATA

Frequency range 48,65 - 51,35 MHz
Modulation amplitude modulation (AM)
Frequency change mechanical switch for switching capacitive generator LC was available to 10 channels at 300 kHz
Receiver superreactive
Output power approx. 60 mW
Sensitivity 6 µV
Reach between two R-116 radio antennas rod 1.45 m in open terrain: about 1 km; on antennas Kulikov 0.95 m coverage was approximately 2-fold lower
Lamps 2Ż27P and 2P29P
Power dry battery anodic-incandescent BANSS-18M
Work time approx. 15 h with a time reception to transmission of 1:3 (on one battery)
Weight approx. 4,5 kg (working set)
Temperature range -40 to +50 °C