For Sale: Radio Related Books and Literature. All prices plus $2.50 US Media Mailing.
ARRL, Operating An Amateur Radio Station, 56th ed., 1975. 50 cents plus $75 cents mailing. ARRL Antenna Book, 1939, George Grammar, covers poor. $2 ARRL Learning to Work With Integrated Circuits, Jerry Hall, 1977. $5 ARRL Radio Amateurs License Manual, 76th ed., 1977. $2 ARRL Weekend Projects for The Radio Amateur, 1979, Vol. 1. $8 Electronic Servicing Magazine, professional technicians Guide To Stereo FM servicing, 50 pages, large format paperback, 1972. $4 General Radio Experimenter, Vol 43, Nos 1&2, Jan/Feb, 1969. $1 Proceedings of the IRE, August, 1958. $2 Hickey and Villnes, Elements of Electronics, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill hardback, 700 pages, lots of solid state but the Typical Transmitter chapter covers a Heathkit tube-type amateur rig in detail. $5 Paul Carell, The Foxes of the Desert, the story of Rommel and the Afrika Corps. Translated from the German so it takes a while to get used to the Wehrmacht as the heroes and the British as the enemy. E. P. Dutton, 1961, hardback with dust jacket. $8 Electronics Engineering Manual, McGraw-Hill hardback, undated but must be about 1940 because all the articles are from the 1930s, 250+ pages. This is a collection of the best of Electronics Magazine from the 1930s. The topics are varied and there must be over 50 articles reprinted here. The quality of the articles is really excellent--schematics and detailed construction notes are included where appropriate. Some examples: Direct Disc Recording; Practical Design of an Electronic Piano; A Laboratory Television Receiver; Voltage Regulators Using Magnetic Saturation; A Special Events Transmitter (dynamotor-powered rig with 807 modulated by PP 6L6s in 2 suitcases!); A Low Distortion Limiting Amplifier; Circuit Design Related to Tube Performance (RCA); Circle Diagrams For Tube Circuits; A VT Voltmeter for Coaxial Line Measurements. Theres much more and its all pretty interesting. Very good or excellent condition. $10 Military TM 11-663 Electronic Power Supplies, 10/51, 100+ pages, large format paperback. Includes good section on power supply control systems incorporating tine delay relays. $8 The Effects of Atomic Weapons, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, J. Robert Oppenheimer et al., paperback, 450 pages. Everything we learned from Hiroshima, Nagasaki and out atmospheric testing at Bikini and elsewhere with many photos. Stained cover. $9 Set of AT&T Bell System Practices books with material dated from 1918 to 1942. Thousands of pages in 5 Bell-binder bound volumes. Covers everything and anything you can imagine: Tools, knots, how to guy a pole, how to erect a pole, pole removal, aerial cables, pole insulators, underground cables, block cables, house cables, carrier current loading equipment, constructing catenaries, testing and fault location, testing manholes for gas, tree pruning, and on and on and on. Nice condition. $20 Bill Orr W6SAI, Radio Handbook 17th edition, Editors and Engineers Hardback, 1969, 850 pages, good condition. One of the best. $13 Lothar Stern, Electronics Made Easy, Popular Mechanics Hardback with worn dust jacket, 200 pages, 1956. Only a few radio projects. $5. Another copy with no dust jacket. $4 Morgan and Lester, the Leica Manual, Morgan and Lester hardback, 400+ pages, great pictures, 1951. Covers everything you can do with the Leica III series cameras and all their accessories. This is a fun read and might make you consider taking up yet another hobby--vintage photography. $15 Bill Orr, W6SAI, Beam Antenna Handbook, 5th ed., paperback, binding edge coming apart at bottom. $3 Bernarr MacFadden, Strengthening Weak Nerves, 1922 paperback with torn and loose covers and other problems, 15 pages, aerobic exercises and proper breathing. Free. Louis Garner, Pinpoint Transistor Troubles in 12 Minutes, Tab hardback, 475 pages, 1967. Shows how to use a great set of tube test equipment to test transistor radio and audio devices. Provides detailed check down lists for many problem symptoms by type of device. This book is actually better than you would expect. $7 Ray Ryan, Basic Digital Electronics, Tab hardback, 200 pages, 1975. Registers, counters, lamp displays, line drivers, etc. $4 Sony Directory of World Band Radio, 1981. Short wave listeners guide--probably came with a Sony short wave radio. Free. GE Magnetic Materials Section, Trends and Developments for Electrical Design Engineers, 1957, large format 12-page B&W brochure with slide rules on the covers (I guess calculators weren'tt a trend in 1957). Covers Alnico magnets, thermistors and varistors. $4 Tektronix 575 transistor curve tracer original manual, nice. $8 Flying Horse Amateur Radio Callbook, Summer, 1953, cover rough and almost coming off. $10 Hallicrafters S-38 (no letter) Sams Photofact. $5 Hallicrafters S-55, S-56 Sams Photofact. $5 National NC-TV-10T Sams Photofact. $5 Motorola VT71 TV Sams Photofact. $5 Meissner 9-1053 AM-FM radio Sams Photofact. $5 Jewel 950 clock radio Sams Photofact. $1 RCA Victor CT-100 color TV Service Data book. Chassis CTC2, Mfr No 274, March 1954, 40 pages, hole-punched. $10 RCA Victor Servicing Color TV Receivers, the 21CT660U Series 21-inch receivers from 1955, 90 pages. $7 Cable TV Supply Company STR-2000 Frequency-Agile Television Processor original manual troubleshooting addendum. Free. Stanley Leinwoll, Shortwave Propagation, Rider paperback, 1959, 130 pages, $3 John Damm, ed., The Practical and technical Encyclopedia, Wise hardback, 1948, 650 pages. Dont know what MEEHANITE is? Got a screwed-up WEIBEL PROCESS? Need to do some CELESTIAL NAVIGATION? If so, then this rather eclectic encyclopedia is for you. $4 Charles A Bliley, The Bliley Electric Company, The Early Years 1930-1955, AWA reprint, 1982. $3 Radio Magazine Antenna Handbook, 1938, covers poor. $3 Telrex PL-77 condensed catalog, 1963. $1 Hosfelt 14th annual catalog. Free. RCA Victor, 4 booklets on basic solid state & transistors, 1964. $2 KCS Electronics, 1983 catalog. Free. Thanks for looking. 73, Don Merz, N3RHT
