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01-14-2011, 02:56 PM
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Anyone collect books?
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This my/may not be the right thread, but... Anybody collect/accumulate old electronics and radio books? These are a few of mine. What do you have? Any you highly recommend? Maybe noob's would find this useful. 
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01-14-2011, 08:59 PM
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Yes, I have a few.
The Audels is fun for nostalgia sake. Radio Handbook Tenth Edition is a good read on transmitters and receivers. Basic Television by Grob is a great read for info on early TV receiver engineering.  Here's one of my favs. I can't find a date on it anywhere, but I figure 20s. 
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01-14-2011, 11:49 PM
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I've probably got about 20-30 books on the subject, including Basic Television by Grob. Add to that I have Rider's 1-16, and they take up quite a bit of shelving!
The most fun reads are the 1930s radio magazines published by Gernsback. They do a great job capturing the enthusiasm of advancing radio technology at the time-every small advancement was treated as a miracle, where now we pretty much take new tech for granted.
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01-14-2011, 11:50 PM
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I've probably got about 20-30 books on the subject, including Basic Television by Grob. Add to that I have Rider's 1-16, and they take up quite a bit of shelving! I'd like to get ahold of a Radiotron designer's handbook someday as well.
The most fun reads are the 1930s radio magazines published by Gernsback. They do a great job capturing the enthusiasm of advancing radio technology at the time-every small advancement was treated as a miracle, where now we pretty much take new tech for granted.
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01-15-2011, 04:03 AM
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Three sistors
I love collecting books for a variety of reasons. Books give the mood of the time, futuristic concepts, the release of the latest and greatest. And of course needed technical information. I will post in the near future five unlikely surviving periodicals from 1936. For now here is a picture of three RCA receiving tube manuals that i use often in my restoration work. The book in the center of the picture (RC-21) is the one i use the most.
 My pick of the day, very dry and for the bench RCA's RC-21 receiving tube manual.  As shown RC-14, RC-21 and RC-23 Last edited by Red Raster; 05-11-2014 at 03:11 AM. Reason: third shift spelling boo boo
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