Audels radiomans guide

[radio nut]

Well I was told to get books on radio and read them over and over til they make sense.

I think I may have really scored big with this book, Audels radiomans guide.
I has a copyright date of 1939 and so far seems to be written for anyone to read and make sense of it

The book does go over television also but it starts out with fundamentals of electronics and goes through radio first.

[bandersen]

I agree - it's a pretty good read. I have the 1946 printing, but it still mentions 441 lines as being the US standard.

[radio63]

What a great book! I have had my copy ever since I was a kid! That book is chock full of information. The early TV stuff is also interesting. Audel also published a TV manual in the early 50s. Great for learning about TV servicing. I also recommend "Modern Radio Servicing" by Ghirardi, as well as ANY of the books by Marcus, Markus, or Levy. All of these are from the 1950s.

Gilbert

[radio nut]

I can work on radios, I have done 5 b/w tv's..... but I really don't understand all of it and was told to get books . Well, a lot of them I do not understand.
So far this is an easy read.
Plus ...for $8.00 I could not let it go !

[maxhifi]

My favorite part of that book, is the Western Electric rack of sound equipment - the huge amplifier with push pull 300Bs.

This book is a bit too old to be a useful reference for TV, but is very interesting and cool to have and read.

[leadlike]

That was the first electronics book I ever had! I'm not sure if it was the '39 edition, but it had to have been prewar, since it covered both mechanical and electronic television systems. I don't have it anymore, and can't comment on how useful of a guide it would be, but I do recall that at the time, I thought the material was pretty dense.

[Reece]

My grandpa bought me a copy in the early fifties when I was in grade school and heavy into radio. I can't find any date in the book but it was new at the time. I still have it. It's a strange mix of outdated stuff from the twenties and thirties and more modern info: the few AA5 schematics it has include some with miniature tubes so it was updated somewhat after the war. It served me well as a kid when I had no other radio book besides ones I checked out from the library. Then a friend gave me a pocket RCA tube guide with tube specs and basing diagrams and I was in business!

I always laughed at the stuffy proscription in the Audel's section on sound: "The only excuse for a cornet is that it is easier to play than a trumpet. Non-musical instruments such as the cornet and saxophone, if they must be heard, should be confined to 2nd and 3rd rate taxi-dance halls in order that cultured and discriminating ears may not be profaned." Hmpf. So much for the cornet and saxophone!