Since 1991, the Sokol RP-204 portable transistor radio receiver has been produced by the Moscow PO Temp.
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In the early nineties, the 20th century, the collapse of the USSR began.
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Many factories producing radio equipment were forced to reduce its production, redesign or completely close any production due to a sharp drop in demand for radio products and for other technical reasons.
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Inexpensive foreign radio equipment, mostly from China, including receivers, began to arrive in the country en masse.
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In order to somehow stay afloat and interest buyers in domestic radio equipment, many radio factories began to overestimate the degree of complexity of the models.
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So it happened with the Sokol RP-204 radio receiver, in fact, this is the Sokol-304 radio receiver of 1985, which in turn has been produced since 1977 under the name Sokol-404, and
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since then, neither its design, nor design, nor the electrical circuit has changed.
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Increasing the complexity (class) of the devices worked, but for a very short time.
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Inflation was raging in the country, and for the money that the plant spent on the production of one device, after a couple of weeks it could not purchase even 10% of the components for this device, besides, the stock of parts was running out and the connections of subcontractors were broken.
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There was an attempt to export the radio to several countries around the world, while the labels on the packaging and in the instructions were in English.
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