1. Introduction
The Windjammer "Gorch Fock I" was launched 1933 in Hamburg. 1945 the ship has been sunk by the Wehrmacht in the Strelasund (Northern Germany). 1947 the ship was recovered by the Sovjet Navy as part of German repatriation payments. 1951 she was named "Towarischtsch", her home port became Kherson and she sailed the seas as schooling ship of the Sovjet merchant fleet until 1989. After many detours and obstacles the "Tall Ship Friends e.V." acquired the ship 2003. Since then her berth is Stralsund, where the restauration works can be seen at a ships visit. And: "Towarischtsch" is again "Gorch Fock I".
Read more here: http://www.tallship-friends.de
2. Radio Equipment
I was interested having a look inside the small radio station with its former call sign UUVA. The room today (2006) still gives the impression, as if the operator just left for a coffee break: Large piles of handbooks and regulations, Morse key and head-phones are lying around. Some equipment is tailor made and of Sovjet origin, like the power distribution, switching desk, emergency transmitter, etc. Some I couldn't identify.
The equipment of the station UUVA comprises among others
- receiver Cicloida
- receiver EKD 500
- receiver Sibir
- emergency transmitter/receiver
- Teletype terminal with punch accessory
- Facsimile unit with thermal print-out
- power distribution, antenna switching panel, switch desk, etc
My thanks go to Martin Boesch for his help to identify the Russian receivers. Visit his excellent Website: Links
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| General Coverage HF Receiver Cicloida with Nixie tubes frequency read-out. For all current modes. Power Supply Unit on top. Manufacturer: Omsk Kozicky Works. | General Coverage Receiver EKD 500. Manufacturer: VEB Funkwerke Köpenick, GDR | Emergency Transmitter/Receiver with preset frequencies 410, 454, 468, 480, 500 and 512 kHz. The Cyrillic instructions explain the use in case "...the ships siren is heard". The operator firstly should choose the frequency and "adjust the antenna current". After 12 dashes of 4 sec the emergency call is made three times: "SOS de UUVA". And for the beginner the dots and dashes are engraved into the instruction label. The text closes with the remark: "Repeat the procedure a little bit later". |
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| General coverage receiver Sibir with Nixie tubes frequency read-out. For all current modes. Power Supply Unit on top. Manufacturer: Omsk Kozicky Works. | Teletype Terminal with punch accessory. Manufacturer: unknown. | Facsimile unit. Print out is on special chemical sensitive paper. Apparently the phasing had to be corrected manually, whether unattended oparation was possible, I couldn't find out. Manufacturer: unknown. |