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1、All pictures hb9aik - vk2ani EKB Shortwave Receiver made in GDR by VEB Funktechnik Dabendorf Restauration of the Czech Model R5 with AC P.S. Description & Picture Gallery hb9aik vk2ani/24.06.19/V1.3Page 1/11 EKB / R5 Portable/Mobile HF Receiver Preface: The Small Print When using the information on

2、these pages for your work please note the following terms and conditions. By using any of the information presented you accept these terms. Thank you! Restoration Projects Philosophy The purpose of many restoration projects described here is to bring the antique equipment back into working condition

3、 close to original specifications while generally preserving their historic electronic and mechanical design. This means that often new components (e.g. capacitors) need to be used - in many cases NOS will not do - which sometimes require small mechanical modifications to the set. This treatment doe

4、s not conform to museum standards that require everything to be left or restored to original. This is an entirely different approach. It is up to you to decide what you want to do. Modifications and Homebrew Projects The projects shown are for information only with the main goal to motivate fellow a

5、mateurs and hobbyists to start on similar projects. Comments for improvements are always welcome. They are always prototypes and not a kit. Youll have to find your own parts. No warranty is given nor implied that they actually work in your situation. And please note that a modified piece of equipmen

6、t looses its collector value - but brings joy to its successful operator! Copyright Some of the circuit diagrams, manual pages or software used and edited are covered by copyrights of their original publishers and intended here for personal use only. No complete manuals can be found, there are alrea

7、dy many sources on the web for this purpose. My personal designs are covered by the GNU licence agreements. Pictures and other documents may not be republished without indicating the source. Regulations Many of the described obsolete radios (or computers) no longer fulfill todays requirements for e.

8、g. electrical safety, EMC, used bandwidth, levels of harmonics or spurs or intermodulation. While at times suitable corrective action is included in my descriptions, many times it is not. It is your responsibilty to make sure your equipment conforms to the requirements in your own country. Safety wh

9、ile Working on the Projects It is your own responsibility and all-important to always observe proper safety procedures in your work. Some of these projects - certainly almost all vacuum-tube circuits - involve high voltages, some lethal indeed. Make sure you understand what you are doing or else get

10、 some qualified help here. Just look at this page to see some tips on this one. Always Switch to Safety when you work on your equipment! Please pay attention to proper grounding of all metal chassis and enclosures and consider the use of GFCI breakers to your shack/workbench. This information and mu

11、ch more can be found on my website https:/hb9aik.ch hb9aik vk2ani/24.06.19/V1.3Page 2/11 EKB / R5 Portable/Mobile HF Receiver 1. Introduction This receiver covers the HF frequencies from 1.5 to 22MHz in 6 bands and was designed for A1, A2 and A3 transmissions. SSB reception is however possible. It w

12、as used in the East German Armed Forces (NVA) from 1962 to 1968 and was the first generation of sets using semiconductors1. 2. Circuit Description (short version)2 The EKB / R5 is a single conversion (A3, A2) or double conversion (A1, calibrate) receiver. The antenna input is well protected by a ser

13、ies lamp (fuse) and a glow lamp to prevent damage e.g. when operated close to transmitters. An RF amplifier DF669 is followed by the DF97 mixer tube (which is in contrast to all other subminiature tubes used a 7pin minature unit). It appears that this has been selected due to the separate pin for th

14、e suppressor grid allowing a better isolation of the mixer output from the LO which uses a DF668. The 1st IF is 900kHz and is amplified in three stages DF669 before fed to the demodulator/AVC diodes for A3 and A2. Selectivity is 4.5 0.5kHz. For better selectivity (1 0.2 kHz) when using A1 the IF sig

15、nal is converted to the 2nd IF 32kHz by a 932kHz crystal oscillator DF669 which also serves as calibration () source . All amplification of the 2nd IF and audio signals is performed by germanium transistors OC811 and diodes OA645. A tone filter of 1000Hz and 200Hz b/w helps to improve CW transmissio

16、ns in A2T or A1T. The battery used provides 1.2V 0.4A (heaters) and 7.2V 0.15A for the transistors and the internal DC-DC converter (2x OC821, 2x OY102) which provides the plate voltage of 60V. An optional external power supply as described later in its Czech implementation ZS-R5 needs to provide th

17、e same two voltages. 3. My Czech R5 Receiver Some time ago I was able to get two Czech R5 receivers which had a Czech made AC power supply ZS-R5, a mobile mount and an accessory pocket in camo-design. The front panel text is Czech, but the insides are still marked in German e.g. R“ for tubes - and t

18、he sets were visibly EKBs made in the GDR for export to partner services. One receiver has the miniature meter while the other has not. The units are painted military green. The accessories consist of a vertical antenna and support (Kulikow, not the GDR spring version), wire antenna, headphones and

19、a small operators booklet in Czech (1962) covering the receiver and a small booklet in Czech (1968) covering the power supply, the latter includes a circuit diagram. To work on the receiver itself, I had to obtain a copy of the official GDR document DV- 44/353 which covers the EKB receiver and provi

20、des all the information needed. 1This information is taken from Nachrichtentechnik der Nationalen Volksarmee“ by Gnter Fietsch DL9WSM, 1993, ISBN 3-88180-318-1 (in German). An excellent overview of GDR radio sets. 2All details are taken from DV-44/35 Vorschrift zum Empfnger EKB“ published by the Min

21、istry for Natio- nal Defence (GDR) 1962. This corresponds to the US TM- documents and provides detailed descripti- ons, operating and field workshop maintenance instructions - including failure analysis (in German). 3Document 123/27 from www.algra-funkarchiv.de in 2006. hb9aik vk2ani/24.06.19/V1.3Pa

22、ge 3/11 EKB / R5 Portable/Mobile HF Receiver The following pages show some pictures4 of the (open) receiver. The careful and solid construction of this portable set is easily visible! Front view of my R5 receiver Bottom left to right: tune, 2x headphones 600, scale calibration, mode switch and volum

23、e control. Top left antenna (low Z), ground. Top right scale light, battery voltage tests. Top view, RF and Osc (DF668) on the left, 1st (DF669) and 2nd IF (OC811) on the right In this view the described shields (see below) in the 1st IF section can be seen. Covered by a metal screen is the RF coil

24、turret that contains the coils for the covered 6 bands. In 4Note that all digital pictures were taken with a technology over 10 years old all hb9aik 2007. hb9aik vk2ani/24.06.19/V1.3Page 4/11 EKB / R5 Portable/Mobile HF Receiver the 2nd IF section the flat OC811 germanium transistors (rectangular, b

25、lack with white label) can be made out. Bottom view, audio circuits and mode and power switches on the left Side view, RF input (DF668) and mixer (DF97) section This shows the RF section, RF amp and mixer above and LO below. This connects to the contacts of the coil turret. Note the interesting comb

26、ination of the miniature DF975 with the subminiature DF668. The following picture shows the rear of the radio including the two power connectors. This information has been added due to some confusion in the numbering of these connectors. Unfortunately the numbering in the two circuit diagrams shown

27、later is reversed: St1 connects to Z2 and St2 connects to Z1! Z2 contains nothing but jumpers. According to DV-44/35 an external power supply may be directly connected to St1 through a suitable cable, eliminating the need for jumpers and any batteries connected to St2 would then automatically be dis

28、connected from the radio. 5Tube equivalents: DF97=1AN5, DF668=1AD4, DF669=5678 hb9aik vk2ani/24.06.19/V1.3Page 5/11 EKB / R5 Portable/Mobile HF Receiver In the picture below the flat OC811 germanium transistors6 in their sockets can again be clearly seen. Rear view, audio section left, tuning capaci

29、tor right, see also in text for St1 + St2 4. Receiver Circuit Diagram The circuit diagram of the entire receiver is added at the end of this document. Note that the scan had to be made from a copy of DV-44/35 and is therefore of doubtful quality. However at least a full size PDF of this may be found

30、 separately on my website. Should a better electronic copy of this be available it would be gladly included here. 5. Revision of my Receiver R5 The EKB7 receiver is very nicely and solidly built and in my case came in excellent condition. Not much work at all was needed to bring it back to life more

31、 however for the external power supply (see below). All tubes and transistors worked, it appeared that the receiver had not seen much use. One problem encountered was an instable 1st IF amplifier, showing up as soon as the radio was inserted into its case (which appeared to increase coupling across

32、the stages). First a wrong tube8 was found (DF668 rather than a vari- DF669) but it still did not go completely away. Eventually two shields made from thin PCB material (to prevent shorts on the circuit side underneath) were installed over two IF stages (see picture of the topside) and this got defi

33、nitely rid of all instability. 6Transistor replacements: all were made by RFT in GDR and have a flat case which makes replacement a bit difficult. Perfomancewise any Ge PNP transistor should do such as the AF series in a TO18 case or US or Japanese equivalents. Beware of higher ft (oscillations!) of

34、 some types. 7EKB incidentally stands for Empfnger-Kurzwelle-Batterie“ (receiver-shortwave-battery) and it has a brother called EUB, U standing for Ultrakurzwelle“ (20-65MHz, VHF). 8Recently it was found that other Czech receivers also had a DF668 in the IF amps 3rd stage. Perhaps this was a field c

35、hange as 3x DF669 are shown in the EKB diagram? hb9aik vk2ani/24.06.19/V1.3Page 6/11 EKB / R5 Portable/Mobile HF Receiver 6. Revision of the Power Supply ZS-R5 Unfortunately the power supply was not built quite as well as the receiver and the electro- lytics showed their age by visibly leaking. All

36、capacitors and some rectifier diodes were replaced, but resistors, transistors and the wiring could be left in place. Nice old germanium technology! The pictures below show the reconditioned power supply and the circuit diagram. View from the top and bottom, note Z1 on the left, new capacitors have

37、been fitted Front view i.e. towards the radio, note Z1on the left with pins 2+3 n/c In this view and the picture below the connectors to the radio can be seen. Only Z1 is part of the active power circuitry while Z2 is part of the chassis and not connected to the power supply circuitry. It contains t

38、wo jumpers to complete the wiring in the radio. hb9aik vk2ani/24.06.19/V1.3Page 7/11 EKB / R5 Portable/Mobile HF Receiver The mains power switch and the mains fuse are located on the right hand side of the unit. They remain accessible in operation through a cutout in the battery box. This shows the

39、power supply in its metal case and installed in the battery box. 7. Building an external Power Supply Two voltages are needed for the radio and it is important to note that as DV-44/35 states - two galvanically isolated batteries“ are needed i.e. there is no common connection in the supply and there

40、fore a transformer with two separate windings needs to be used. These days things can be made a lot simpler on the DC side and just a rectifier, capacitor an a regulator such as the LM317 can be used. The 500mA variant is sufficient also for the 1.2V filament supply, but this regulator will need a h

41、eat sink. The 7.2V supply needs an output capacitor of 47uF in view of the DC/DC converter in the radio. And remember to keep the regulators floating from each other and from the chassis. No actual circuit is offered at this time as my radio has the ZS-R5, but will be included if someone builds one

42、and wants to share it here. 8. Circuit Diagrams The circuit diagrams for the EKB receiver and the ZS-R5 supply follow on the following pages. _ hb9aik vk2ani/24.06.19/V1.3Page 8/11 EKB / R5 Portable/Mobile HF Receiver hb9aik vk2ani/24.06.19/V1.3Page 9/11 EKB / R5 Portable/Mobile HF Receiver _ hb9aik vk2ani/24.06.19/V1.3Page 10/11 EKB / R5 Portable/Mobile HF Receiver hb9aik vk2ani/24.06.19/V1.3Page 11/11