[NJARC] I want to learn!

[Al Klase]

Gang,

As NJARC Technical Coordinator allow me to weigh in on this thread. The 
club is a interesting combination of people, some of us spent a big 
chunk of our lives with our faces stuck to an oscilloscope, and others 
did more ordinary and sensible things, but still have a deep interest in 
radio.  Obviously, it would be a good thing if the club could provide 
some remedial education to allow the second group to catch up a little 
bit.  The day-long Oscilloscope School is a good example.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZKMrzTGxLQ
(Hmmm, comes up right on top if you search YouTube for "Scope for Dopes")

Here another example on Radio Restoration: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OYw2wfdSCs
(Who's that kid with the hair?)

The problem with both of these is that you're jumping into the middle a 
rather deep subject.

My recollections from US Army Signal School at Ft. Monmouth in 1968 is 
that it took three full week of classes just to cover the basics.  We 
may not have enough Saturdays left to go through the whole thing, even 
if we had someone to organize it.

I briefly browsed around for some suggestions this morning.  Take time 
to look through Module 1 (of 24) of the Navy correspondence school, and 
I think you'll get the idea.  A competent technician needs to have at 
least been e\briefly exposed to this material.
http://rtm.ar88.net/resources/Training/Navy%20Module%201%2014173.pdf
This is modern ca. 1998.  They barely mention electron tubes.

There are some vintage electronics book available.  Here's one:
http://rtm.ar88.net/resources/Training/Basic%20Radio%20-%20Hoag%201942.pdf
I hacked at this file to fix the page numbering so the TOC and Index 
will work.  And did Optical Character Recognition on it so it can be 
searched, and one can cut and past text from it.

All of the above is no substitute for have someone actually teach this 
to your.  I'm open to solutions.

Regards,
Al

Al Klase – N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/