Cardi Pobeda 2602 Radar Dial

A Cardi (Pobeda) Radar Dial watch with a ZiM 2602 movement is another watch from my collection to be catalogued on this blog.

Bought NOS (new old stock) and BNIB (brand new in box) in 2013. 

The watch itself is late 1990s - early 2000s.

With the name apparently being an abbreviation of Car Design, Cardi was a Russian manufacturing company in the 1990s - early 2000s that produced watches, among other things, first, using Russian movements and placing orders in Russian factories then using Chinese movements before disappearing by the year 2005 or thereabouts.

They were frequently adding some new styling touches.

This distinctive dial is one of my favorites. It is known as Radar, you can see some Radar related motifs easily, also several numerical scales, military-redundancy style.

 

This is not the first Radar-dialed watch on this blog. Earlier we had this Pobeda Radar Dial.

And more Radar-dialed watches are still to come. Stay on the radar.

llya's Radio Shack: Sony PSP Thru Car Radio = Driving to Liberty City Radio

Here is something from my new radio blog dealing exclusively with my interest in radio - an "innovative" use of my Sony PSP console for radio surfing purposes even if the radio is kind of fictional.

The objective here is to drive my car whilst surfing radio stations from the GTA Liberty City Stories game for the PSP especially and also from the GTA Vice City Stories. 

Just like you did in the game (minus the mayhem).

In case the explanation in the video isn't clear, here is how I do it again.

To connect my Sony PSP console to my Ford Sony Radio I use the latter's auxiliary input as it doesn't have any other way of connectivity being a 2008 radio. 

I plug the cord into the headphones out on the PSP. Then I select the auxiliary input to play on the radio and we are all set!

To play radio stations in the game you don't have to be actively playing the game. What you do is go to the Options Screen by pressing Start once the game is running, then select Audio, and on the Audio screen you can, among other things, make the in-game radio stations play in full and you can cycle between them using the left and right directional buttons on the PSP.

So I set it like that and leave the PSP on the passenger's seat and drive to that famous radio! 

I prefer Liberty City radio more. My favorites stations are Radio Del Mundo, Flashback FM, Rise FM with DJ Sanchez but I listen to all of them. 

Perfect for a long trip, a station plays for about 40 minutes and starts all over again.

llya's Radio Shack: Sony PSP Thru Car Radio = Driving to Liberty City ...: Here is an "innovative" use of my Sony PSP console for radio surfing purposes even if the radio is kind of fictional. The obj...

2002 Vostok Amphibia "Sailboat"

It is now time to catalog on this blog another watch from my collection which is this 2002 Vostok Amphibia(n) "Sailboat" called so on account of it having a picture of a sailboat on the dial.

These photos were made some years back and they are not too good. 

Maybe I'll make yet better photos of this watch but for now these will have to do.

This is one of the three post-Soviet Vostok amphibia watches that I have had and still have, the other two being the 2007 Compass Bezel Vostok Amphibia (now retired from active duty) and the 2012 Black Scuba Dude Amphibia that I use currently.

But it happens to be the oldest of the three having been bought in the now distant year of 2002 and is a veteran of many a swimming-pool and sauna session, and I don't go to places like that -- where they engage in water activities -- without having a Vostok Amphibia on my wrist.

Sorry about the graphic picture below.

You can read more about Vostok Amphibia watches on my blog, just use the search function for "Vostok Amphibia".

Watches

My watches playlist on youtube.

Feedin' Fish

Fed some fish yesterday at a WWF installation at a local shopping mall.

Backup vid of the same.

Minus RUB200... could have had lunch myself... got two fridge magnets though.

VreMax: Collage Photo of Some Watches from my Collection

Here's a crude collage photo of some of the watches from my collection (not all of them by a mile).

For a while I used it my header photo on my Russian blog but then I removed it.

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Capital FM 105.20 Moscow's Only English Speaking Radio

Kevin Yost @ RTS.FM Studio - 03.05.2009: DJ Set

This very good.

Dave Pearce - Delirium 130

Moscow FM Surfing

Radio being one of my hobbies, yesterday I decided to surf Moscow's FM band 87.5 - 108.0 MHz and do a station count.

During my first attempt I counted 36 stations and the memory in my point-and-click overflowed with 102-105 MHz not yet covered.

Today I had another FM session and used my cell phone with more memory and this time the result was 44 stations.

And I was using auto-tune on a Sony home component stereo, a 2002 Sony MHC RG40, and at least a couple more stations were skipped over by said autotune, so the actual number is closer to 50.

Only one Moscow FM station - Capital FM @ 105.20 - broadcasts in English.

Interestingly, while the FM band in Moscow is as full as in any other major world city and there is also an extension of it - the Russian UKW band, the AM band has on the other hand become almost completely depopulated in recent years with only a couple of stations, well, maybe four or three but most of them broadcasting only part of the day and not every day of the week at that.

2016 Invicta Calendar Behind the scenes

Invicta watch calendar is back.




Invicta 2016 calendar on the Invicta website (PDF).

Sony PSP Thru Car Radio = Driving to GTA Games Soundtrack

Ritmix RPR-7011 AM FM SW 1-2 Radio

Now writing about a new addition to my collection of radios.

Here is a Ritmix RPR-7011 portable AM FM SW1,2 radio bought by me a week back.

Ritmix is a local Russian brand selling electronic goods made for it in China and may be other places.

A video of my newly acquired Ritmix RPR-7011 which is a simple radio but not without pleasant surprises, of which after the video.

As I say Ritmix places orders in China, and I don't know about its other products, but its radios are rebadged versions of renowned Degen and Tecsun models. 

In fact, you can see in the video that the description on the box says this radio is even made by Tecsun General Electric Manufacture (although it is a Degen model). Other Ritmix radios may be made by different manufacturers.

The Russian radio hobbyist community has established that this Ritmix RPR-7011 is the rebadged Degen DE 319.

But there is more, the previous model of this Ritmix radio was apparently a clone of the Degen DE 319A, an unremarkable analog radio, but this current model is the enhanced Degen DE 319 DSP.

DSP stands for digital signal processing and DSP technology ensures stable reception, tuning and sound and is encased in a DSP microchip developed by Silicon Labs.

There are several hints that it is a DSP model and one of them is the little inscription you can see on the radio dial if you look at it at an angle.

It says DE319DSP.

And here is a picture borrowed from a Russian radio forum.

I don't know that much about radio technology being mainly a consumer of finished products but apparently there is a si4836 microchip (si4836 PDF) connected to all bands, so this radio combines analog radio with digital tuning and signal processing. 

Good for tuning to FM stations here in Moscow where the FM band is literally crammed full with transmitters.

Another bonus is it has a three-LED flash light on one side, see the video.


Edited: January 7, 2019

Almost three years after....

 

si4836http://vcfm.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1446&start=60

si4836http://vcfm.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1446&start=60

si4836http://vcfm.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1446&start=60

Vostok 2612.1 Signal Mechanical Alarm Wristwatch

Time now to catalog another watch from my collection of mainly Russian and other affordable watches (but many of them remarkable in their own way) something I have been doing for close to three years already.

You can find my collection listed and linked to on the right-hand panel on this blog.

Here is a Vostok 2612.1 (Signal) with the 1MWF Poljot 2612 movement, still in its box here. 

Bought new as recently as 2012 or 2013 from the factory website. Now (and for ever) out of stock.

The styling is very questionable, however I have no major complaints about it, except the Vostok screw-on crown assemblies which are too feebly on this watch.

However, the main attraction of this watch is its mechanical alarm movement.

This simple back covers the 1MWF Poljot 2612 mechanical alarm movement.

Mechanical alarm movements are rare these days especially when encased in affordable watches.

More to the point, none are practically left, there was the ST2800 from China but it was made for a very short time and is no longer in production, I think. 

Ritmix RPR-7011 (Degen DE 319) Unboxing and Quick Test

Koutouzoff's soviet watches: Chronograph 1 MChZ Tutima - Urofa 59

Koutouzoff's soviet watches: Chronograph 1 MChZ Tutima - Urofa 59: Custom made strap from Robert Marcel in Moscow

WOTD: Okean 3133 Final Edition

Watch of the day yesterday was my Okean 3133 Final Edition Chrono.

Resting on my Grundig YachtBoy 500, also rare (ish) these days.

Okean 3133 1976-2011 Final Edition Chrono

PS3 Buying Guide & Favorite Games

MJR and friend on the PS3.





And I have multiple PS consoles myself - a PS1 (original), 2 PS2s (original and small which is still in use), 2 second-version PS3s.

Dave Pearce - Delirium - Episode 128

VreMax: International Women's Day - 8 March 2016 - Flowers...

Some flowers for the ladies to mark the International Women's Day 8 March 2016.

Not everybody celebrates it everywhere but we do -- today, March 4, is the last working day before 4 days of holidays on occasion of the International Women's Day here in Russia. 

Flowers from mother's dacha.

Peonies, white

Rose

Mane Tower Rose

Souvenir Rose

Mane Tower

Souvenir

Radio Moscow 1986

More old radio from my collection.

Moscow Zoo on Feb 7, 2016

Moscow's Zoo as seen by me through my camera on 07.02.2016.

Picture-and-video heavy. 

First the approaches to the Zoo on a grey and clouded winter day, not too cold though, still below zero on the Centigrade scale aka Celsius.

A view on the Zoo's central pond with lots of ducks.

Entrance.

Panorama.

Llama.

Some kind of white pheasant.