The story
The radios manufactured for the Soviet Union internal market have the inscription in Russian, those ones built to be exported have the inscription in English.
On many Soviet radios we can see the inscriptions ΜПИ (MashPriborIntorg) or TENTO, these are not factories or brands names but the trade names of the two companies that were working on marketing and export of these products.
TENTO (abbreviation of Technointorg) was founded in 1979 to export/import technical goods (included radios) and we can see this logo on the rear of many radios and their package boxes.
SOKOL ( GULL) radios were manufactured by the Moscow Industrial Union "TEMP" SU, (Federal State Enterprise), a company still working (active) in Moscow.
This company was born in 1914 like "The first governmental electromechanical plant",later it was renamed: Moscow Radio Plant "Temp" and finally it was named: Moscow industrial union "TEMP" SU.
The company is famous since 1980s for its radio manufacturing and the last generation products are: Aircraft automatic radio-compasses which ensure flight route and approach for landing procedure; FM radio-compasses which provide aircraft to aircraft approach including in-flight refuel procedure and search of people suffering distress in emergency Aircraft; receiver-display units operating with both Russian (GLONASS), and foreign (NAVSTAR) signals of satellite navigating systems; Emergency radio stations for providing bidirectional communication between aircrew in distress and rescue team.
On many Soviet radios we can see the inscriptions ΜПИ (MashPriborIntorg) or TENTO, these are not factories or brands names but the trade names of the two companies that were working on marketing and export of these products.
TENTO (abbreviation of Technointorg) was founded in 1979 to export/import technical goods (included radios) and we can see this logo on the rear of many radios and their package boxes.
SOKOL ( GULL) radios were manufactured by the Moscow Industrial Union "TEMP" SU, (Federal State Enterprise), a company still working (active) in Moscow.
This company was born in 1914 like "The first governmental electromechanical plant",later it was renamed: Moscow Radio Plant "Temp" and finally it was named: Moscow industrial union "TEMP" SU.
The company is famous since 1980s for its radio manufacturing and the last generation products are: Aircraft automatic radio-compasses which ensure flight route and approach for landing procedure; FM radio-compasses which provide aircraft to aircraft approach including in-flight refuel procedure and search of people suffering distress in emergency Aircraft; receiver-display units operating with both Russian (GLONASS), and foreign (NAVSTAR) signals of satellite navigating systems; Emergency radio stations for providing bidirectional communication between aircrew in distress and rescue team.
Design
The Sokol-403 was manufactured from 1976 in Moscow and became a poplar part of the story of TEMP. The outlook design of the radio is just perfect and amasing.
It amazingly is in working condition now as a bluetooth speaker after 50 years of storage with the help YKON.
It amazingly is in working condition now as a bluetooth speaker after 50 years of storage with the help YKON.
Features
- Bluetooth v4.0
- Harman/Kardon speaker 3W
- Reachargeable battery 1020 mAh
- Optional: Prev/Play/Pause/Phone call/Next buttons
- Indicator LEDs
- Dimensions: 17,3 cm wide; 9,5 cm tall; 5,3 cm deep