Appeared in 1938 DKE receiver 38, the development of which was Company Lorenz, cost only 35 RM. Given that by the time the minimum wage of skilled workers is 150 Reichsmark, it is clear that buy German mini-receiver "to virtually every German family.
For DKE receivers have been designed cost radiolampy, triode-tetrod VCL 11 and valve push tube VY 2, resulting in DKE consumed from the network a total of 15 W, while the VE 301 consumed more than 20 Watts.
Since 1939, DKE 38 issued and battery option (DKE 38 B) using the same 2-Volt radiolamp as battery VE 301 B2. Moreover, for supply to the Army Wehrmacht produced a military version of DKE 38 B Militar in a special packing box, where the radio posted nakalny battery and battery anode. The exhibition is presented to the RAC Radiomuzeya this option.
During the period from 1938 to 1944. DKE receiver 38 has several modifications that are not reflected in its appearance, although the receiver circuit gradually improved. And if the first modification called "DKE 38 Ausfurung II" (DKE 38, the execution of 2), three subsequent versions will indicate the time of their introduction - DKE 40, DKE DKE 44 and 43.
In Radiomuzee RSC 1940, before it changed, ie DKE 40, which differs from DKE bias adjustment circuit 38, and outwardly looks absolutely identical.
In the same firms in 1938 to Germany and Austria were added four Hungarian companies, each of which is produced by two types of DKE - for AC networks and networks for both the permanent and alternating current. Receivers produced by brand manufacturers symbols, letters, "DKE" are not included.
For example, the Hungarian firm Orion model produced 011 and 011U, a firm such as Standard model meant 2011 and 2010. Inside it were exact copies of DKE, although the external design present some Hungarian flavor. For example, the hole dynamics were not Imperial emblem of the German Broadcasting ( "bird" with a swastika in the concentric circles of radio waves), but at the top of the building housed the National intricate pattern.
Common, albeit informally, the name of all these Hungarian receivers - "Horthy Nepradio" or "People's Receiver Horta (Horta named Miklos, the then leader of Hungary). This rare version of "Hungarian DKE" also has a collection Radiomuzeya RAC.
After the outbreak of World War II, when German troops invaded Poland, to produce "the German mini-receivers" DKE joined and three Polish companies operating in the 1940-1944 biennium. administered by the German occupiers. For example, the Warsaw DeRuFa (Deutsche Rundfunkempfangerfabrik Warschau GmbH).
Towards the end of the war is widespread, these receivers DKE earned among ordinary Germans contemptuous nickname "Gobbels Schnauze", ie "muzzle Goebbels." Apparently, due to the fact that the voice sounded reyhsministra propaganda of the radio more frequently than others, but the truth in his speeches became increasingly ...
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