[Hallicrafters] Another resource for beginners

[Carl]

Id suggest that a beginner start with the first book in that series, 
"Elements Of Radio Servicing" which was aimed at training WW2 servicemen for 
a civilian job fixing consumer grade radios. It does a good job explaining 
things to a former foxhole digger with absolutely no radio experience for 
example. This is a 1947 copyright.

The excellent book suggested by Carl Nord was first published in 1956 and 
revised in 1963 with some SS sections.

While there is a lot of overlap they complement each other and the 1947 book 
is particularly good for some of the prewar circuits. Both are fairly common 
on Ebay, vintage radio swapmeets and that type of forums.

I picked up both books about 10 years ago when I got serious about 
collecting consumer style radios and it was very helpful with several new to 
me circuits not found in communications sets.

Carl
KM1H




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Nord WA1KPD" <chnord at comcast.net>
To: "Mike Pagel" <mpagel at uwsp.edu>
Cc: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Another resource for beginners


> The absolute best resource I have is a book from the 40s or 50s called 
> "Practical Radio Servicing" by
>
> William Marcus and Alex Levy
>
> The book walks you through circuit theory and trouble shooting by each 
> section of a tube radio. It explains what a part does, how it does it and 
> what symptoms are exhibited when the part is bad. It is not aimed at an 
> engineer but at the normal guy who might be trying to fix a radio
>
> The book starts at the AF output and works its way back.
>
> They show up on ebay from time to time and at radio shows. I strongly 
> recommend it. I only wish they had done a similer book for transmitters.
>
> 73
> Carl
> WA1KPD
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Pagel" <mpagel at uwsp.edu>
> To: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Thursday, May 6, 2010 3:36:23 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [Hallicrafters] Another resource for beginners
>
> Several days ago I posed a question about resources for beginners...today 
> I'm sharing a link to a potentially useful tool for newbies.
>
> The 1949 version of the NRI Radio Repair Course is available (PDF) for 
> download at:
> http://www.fyrbotlz.com/Downloads.html
>
> The education provided by the NRI material is far too basic to have value 
> to most of the subscribers on this list, but I expect to gain competence 
> and confidence by taking the course. I've recapped a half dozen radios, 
> with the SX-101 being the most sophisticated of that small group, but 
> simply swapped caps without really understanding what each one did and 
> why.
>
> Most hams I know will say that radio theory came easily while they 
> struggled to master the code. For me, it was the other way around.
>
> 73, de Mike, K9UW
> Amherst, WI
>
>
>
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