FROM “USELESS” – IN THE RIGHT

FROM Want to lead a conversation about “retraining” relatively useless or obsolete electronic devices in the useful and necessary. A lot of stuff gathering dust “in the bins” radio Amateur may get a second life. This is especially true in economically crisis periods, and not only the world but also a family. For example, a portable radio (transceiver) citizen’s band (CB), shown in the photo, are unlikely to even be interested in Amateur radio.

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BLOCKADE TRAM

TRAM SIEGEFrom the devastation of the civil war Petrograd began to rise by the middle of 1920-ies. Respectively, began to grow and the population of the city, considerably departing from 1918 to 1920. The only form of public transport in Petrograd was a tram, but the cars are too worn down and dilapidated over the years of the First world and Civil wars. Naturally, to return the city to normality was needed and the restoration of the tram system, which has taken a number of measures.

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AND THE CHAIR, AND THE BED AND SOFA

AND A CHAIR, AND THE BED AND SOFADecided to respond to the invitation to become your author. I want to share a simple chair design that can act as a module to construct, for example, corner sofa, single or double beds. His scheme seem simplified, but it is available for repetition and does not require scarce materials: suitable items of old furniture, chipboard, plywood, rods and slats of furniture packages. Depending on the level of performance and material upholstery takaw furniture can be used successfully in the apartment, and in the country, where the possibilities of its transformation particularly advantageous.

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BORROWED FROM THE WALLS AND CEILING

BORROWED FROM the WALLS AND CEILINGI thought: and what room, when we go home, we are often the longest? For women, in my opinion, this is the kitchen. Man, even the most caring, here only helps, plays only a minor role. But can play the main… in the landscaping and kitchen equipment, particularly small ones, where it is so easy to place a pile of various utensils. But we now require that the aesthetics were in attendance, and it was convenient to use, and the area is rationally distributed functionally, and to some meters remain free. Let’s try to count what they leave, if they, say, only about six.

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FLYING AT A HEIGHT OF INCHES

FLIGHT TO THE HEIGHT OF CENTIMETERSIn the Soviet and foreign scientific and popular journals have repeatedly reported Nicoleta apparatus-ekranoplan, including the Soviet pilot the rescue boat amphibious ESKA-1. This car is Amateur-built successfully last cycle of flight tests, designed by Moscow engineers Gramatzki A., E. Grunin, S. Chernyavskaya, Y. Gorbenko and N. Ivanov. Flight tests were conducted by an engineer A. Gramatzki, and then the pilot Baluev A.. ESKA-1 was exhibited on one of the Central exhibitions NTTM was awarded a bronze medal VDNH USSR, and its creators — signs of the winners of the NTTM.

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