[Milsurplus] Ray Moore's Communications Receivers books

[Hubert Miller]

>I know of 4 editions of this book, were there others? 
Jim

I cannot answer this question, altho i do own the book. 
I suppose i am also interested in the answer, altho i find the Osterman book
vastly superior. The Moore book does have more in depth history text about
some manufacturers.

I wager the 4th Edition of the Osterman book, "Shortwave Receivers Past and 
Present", will be the last. Skeptical me, i appraise such project as akin to trying 
to catalog all the patterns snowflakes can assume. I immediately on browsing 
the book could name about a dozen receivers that met the criteria and do not 
appear in the book. It also seems every hamfair swap i attend, i see some other
receiver not included in the book. Some are just new trade names applied 
instead of the better known name, of course.
This is just the way it is; the author can't have exposure to every corner of the world,
some corners that some of us have investigated. For example, by having the 
attention and intention, i have gathered the most docs on Northern Radio ( Seattle,
do not confuse with other ) receivers, which were usually mounted in the over -
under configuration  for boat radios, but could also be bought alone, and offered
the option of BFO for CW reception. Not that i'm boasting  i'm king of the dungpile,
i just had the intent and attention and was in the right place at the right time,
which very few else could do. 

I disagree with Osterman's starting point as 1942. True, you don’t want to have to 
list every one-tube radio from the 1930s shortwave craze, but there were some 
superhet receivers from the mid 1930s that should not be ignored. 

I was thinking, assuming i am correct about there never being another edition ( i 
should ask the author, really ) of starting a 'crowd sourced' addendum, whose
pages could be 3 hole punched for collecting in a binder. 

A paraphrase of an old saying comes to mind. "Shortwave is dead! Long live shortwave! "
( I am heavily invested. )
-Hue Miller