Audels radiomans guide

[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 It's a strange mix of outdated stuff from the twenties and thirties and more modern info: the few AA5 schematics it has include some with miniature tubes so it was updated somewhat after the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!