[Heathkit] Re: Heathkit Digest, Vol 31, Issue 25

[Bwana Bob]

The same thing was done with "The Hardy Boys and the Shortwave Radio 
Mystery". A friend had the original. I obtained a copy as a collectible, 
but the equipment description had been updated.

I can see why they would want to update the equipment descriptions for a 
new generation of readers, but then the books lose their significance as 
amateur radio history.

1964-1965 were my "pre-Novice" years and I remember the Carl and Jerry 
series in Popular Electronics. That magazine at the time had an 
excellent mix of Hi-Fi, gadgets, CB, SWL and amateur radio articles. I 
don't think there is anything comparable today, other than Popular 
Communications, which IMHO is a unsophisticated by comparison.

Did anyone make the Radio Boys or Carl and Jerry available as reprints 
or CD's?

These adventure stories, a novice license, and Heathkit gear were 
perfect together and a cherished part of my own personal ham radio history.


                                                                         
         73,

                                                                         
         Bob WB2VUF (ex-WN2VUF)

Smokey wrote:
> I agree...the "Tommy Rockford" books should never have been rewritten. In the 1980s I was very disappointed after buying the whole set, finding it was full of kids running around with HTs, so I donated the whole batch to a thrift store. Even then, already, I was tiring of the League's incessant propaganda. Anyway...if you'd like some GREAT substitutes for the "tainted" Tommy Rockford series redieux I heartily recommend these substitutes: CALLING W1XYZ, (Jimmy Kean and the Radio Spies series) by Thorf McClusky. These are in a small book format known as "Better Little Books" and published by Whitman Publishing Co in the 1939-era. Another GREAT series of books are the "Radio Boys" series from about the same era and most titled start with "Radio Boys Mystery of _____." And OF COURSE get hold of some 1950s and 60s Popular Electronics and enjoy John Frye's CARL AND JERRY stories that were a monthly feature.
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