[bars] Fwd: Radio Book

[Juan Jiménez]

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From: Juan Jiménez <k1cpr at bd5.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 30, 2024, 16:36
Subject: Re: [bars] Radio Book
To: Andy Wallace <soldersmoke01 at gmail.com>


"Sometimes I feel like I am one of the few club members left who knows how
to solder."

You're not. I graduated from the Naval Air Technical Training Center in
Millington TN in 1979. We were taught how to solder, with lots of practice.
I finished quickly near the top of my class. Not the Iranian officer
candidates. Those kids took a minimum of two weeks to get through the
initial one day Basic Aviation  Introduction. One of them crashed an RV on
a clear sunny day with no traffic. Told the officers the autopilot didn't
work. There's your sign... 😜

On Mon, Dec 30, 2024, 13:48 Andy Wallace <soldersmoke01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Juan, bravo for finding this great book. And cheap, too.
>
> Folks, you can read the entire PDF at the link below. My favorite sections
> are the receiver and transmitter construction.
>
> See the 1938 Frank C. Jones Radio Handbook here:
>
> ENGINEERING HANDBOOKS MISCELLANEOUS: Radio engineering reference books
> <https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Bookshelf-Handbooks.htm>
> worldradiohistory.com
> <https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Bookshelf-Handbooks.htm>
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> <https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Bookshelf-Handbooks.htm>
> <https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Bookshelf-Handbooks.htm>
>
> Main site:
>
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> <https://www.worldradiohistory.com/index.htm>
> worldradiohistory.com <https://www.worldradiohistory.com/index.htm>
> [image: Radio Business Report.jpg]
> <https://www.worldradiohistory.com/index.htm>
> <https://www.worldradiohistory.com/index.htm>
>
> (The person behind World Radio History deserves an award for scanning in
> thousands of radio books and magazines. You can spend days exploring here.)
>
> I’m a BARS member who enjoys using and fixing old gear. What Juan has
> discovered is the appeal of what came before. Before FT8. Before FM and
> repeaters. Even before single sideband.
>
> Sometimes I feel like I am one of the few club members left who knows how
> to solder.
>
> Does 468/f(MHz) mean anything to you? Regardless of when you got your
> license, it should! And it’s in the 1938 Jones handbook. It’s the length of
> a half wave dipole. So you should know if you’re going out to operate Parks
> on the Air you might need supports 66 feet apart to operate 40m….so maybe
> 33’ on 20m might be wiser.
>
> In 1938 it had been about a decade since hams were thrown off what’s now
> the AM broadcast band to operate “200 meters and down” - HF. People didn’t
> realize they gave us the bands which would allow easy worldwide
> communication by skywave and the ionosphere.
>
> Things were still being discovered and invented in radio in 1938. Look at
> that Handbook and you’ll see construction articles where a handful of parts
> got you on the air. Simple receivers. Simple transmitters. It’s like making
> an iPhone in your basement in 2005. High tech.
>
> We learn by what came before. That’s important. Even in a day when Venmo
> buys you a carton full of electronics to do FT8.
>
> Andy
> KA1GTT
>
>
>
>
> Dec 29, 2024, at 4:03 PM, Juan Jiménez <k1cpr at bd5.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Picked up a copy of The Radio Handbook, 1938 edition, for a couple of
> bucks several weeks ago. I started reading it today and realized it beats
> the ARRL handbooks by a long mile. Easy to read, concepts well-explained.
> $1.50 in 1938 would be $31.95 today.
>
> [image: Radio Handbook 1938.jpg]
>
> 73,
> K1CPR
> Juan
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