Two enterprises produced the third-class subscriber Loudspeaker Chaika-5 in the USSR: Kuibyshevsky Plant No. 281 NKAP, MAP, Ekran, PO Box 114 and Kuibyshevsky Plant KINAP, however, their product range was significantly different.
Since 1954, the Ekran factory, on the same element base, has been producing the widest assortment of Chaika-5 loudspeakers in the country, which differed in their external design.
The first two options actually repeated the design of AG "The Seagull-3" with a lattice and a figure of a seagull on the front surface.
Both options had a size and weight, as with the Chaika-3 AG: 200x140x90 mm, weight 1.4 kg.
The difference was only in the elemental base, the method of attaching the magnet to the speaker (for screen models, screws with round caps instead of nuts were used) and markings on the back wall.
Both of these variants of the Chaika-5 AG were produced at the Ekran plant in a version for a 30 volt network and, regardless of the case design, were labeled 0.25-GD-III-1.
But, in addition, the plant produced an economical model marked "0.15-GD-III-1", which was also intended for a 30 volt network, but had a smaller magnet in dynamics (52 mm instead of 60 mm) and a power of 0,
15 watts
In 1958, the Ekran plant ceased production of both of these options, replacing them with a fundamentally different loudspeaker design, which nevertheless retained the former name Seagull-5.
The new version had a trapezoidal shape with expansion in the upper part and narrowing at the bottom.
It was large in size 160x214 (top) x160x195x92 mm, but lighter in weight - 1.1 kg.
This model consisted of two collapsible elements - a side frame (it was made of black carbolite) and a decorative panel inserted into it, on the inside of which an elemental base was mounted.
The panel was produced in three primary colors: white, blue and lettuce.
On its front surface there was a bas-relief of a flying gull.
The Ekran plant produced this model in two variants of element base placement, which had different markings on the back wall.
In the first version, the transformer was mounted on a speaker basket.
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In the second version, the transformer was installed on the panel separately from the speaker.
This version was marked "0.25-GD-III-2."
In all on-screen models of the Chaika-5 AG, a rheostat type volume control was used, and the range of reproduced sound frequencies was 150 ... 5000 Hz.
The production of loudspeakers at the Ekran plant was discontinued in early 1959 and transferred to the Kuibyshev KINAP plant, which continued to produce only the trapezoidal type of the Chaika-5 AG.
The Kinapov AG Chaika-5 were identical to the second version of the screen model, but were already produced under the new GOST (5961-59) and were marked "0.15-GD-III-2".
The only sign of Kinapov"™s Chaika-5 AG was the speaker with a new ferroalloy magnet and a round hole in the lid of its mount.
Loudspeakers for a network of 30 volts were made.
The production of the Chaika-5 AG at the Kinap plant was discontinued in the early 60s, with the start of production of new loudspeakers under the name Volga.
Information and photographs of Sergei Ivanovich Nenashev (Vint), Moscow.
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