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

[wolfbob]

You can read some of Carl and Jerry stories here:

http://www.handiham.org/article.php?sid=8

WBob, WB6JPI
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From: "Smokey" <telegrapher at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 6:06 AM
Subject: [Heathkit] Re: Heathkit Digest, Vol 31, Issue 25


>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.
>
> 73 and ZUT
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> W9STB
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