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All details about Orel-1.

GAZ 69 OREL-1 (Eagle-1)

Work on the project for the mobile radio prelengator for long and medium frequencies, called Orel-D commenced under the USSR Ministry of Defence decree number 827/367ss 1959. The contract number 21 of 30/07/1959.
In 1960 the GAZ 69 was selected and the radio-transparent wooden hardtop covered with the canvas for camouflage was designed.
By the end of 1962 the sketch-engineering design was finished and the first prototype was ready for laboratory tests.
The apparatus "Orel-D" was a radio direction finder with a visual bearing indicator, with the ability to work on the move and stationary.
Designed for finding the direction of radios transmitting in a range of frequencies between 150 kHz to 1900 GHz.

It provides:
A) simultaneous and independent reception and station search by two operators using omnidirectional antennas;
B) visual and auditory direction finding by one of the operators while the second operator can search and identify on non-directional antenna.
The equipment consists of two radio stations, a visual display, blocks of antennas with a goniometer, motor and electrical components.

Re-designed apparatus now called "Orel-1" was placed in a GAZ-69E. It consisted of a direction finder "RP-5" instead of the dual-finder, and the transmitter "Tvertsa." The rest of the equipment of the station "Orel-1" was the same as on the "Orel-D." Power for the entire station was provided by a battery pack 6ST-54 that provides operation without recharging for 20 hours. Production started in 1968.
It is estimated that about 10 units per year were produced.

 

 

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Directional finder RP-5


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

 

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