"k3hvg" wrote in message
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k3hvg wrote:
Richard Knoppow wrote:
"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
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Henry Kolesnik wrote:
Over the years I've gone thru several 4th editions but
have never seen
any of its predecessors. I'll have to watchout for
some.
I see the second and third editions at hamfests a lot.
They are often
black and less than half the width of the 4th edition
so you might not
see it unless you're looking for it.
--scott
I suspect people with the 4th edition just never
sell them. What I would love to find one day is the
original Australian edition of the 4th. The American
(RCA) edition was produced by photo-offset and some of
the charts leave something to be desired.
--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
Guess I'm lucky.... I have an RCA version and the one
from ... well, let's see. It says typeset in Australia
and published by Billings and Sons Ltd. London. Is that
the good one?
de K3HVG
Nope... that wasn't correct. It says Published by
Amalgamated Wireless Valve Co. of Australia but printed
and bound by the folks at Billings (London) and dated
1954. I guess that's how they did it?
Not sure, it might be an English edition. The title
page of the RCA edition says:
Published by the Wireless Press for
The Amalgamated Wireless Valve Company PTY limited
47 York Street, Sydney, Australia 1953
Since the RCA edition was reproduced by
photo-lithography this is likely what the Australian edition
says. I take "published" to mean printed and bound. I
suspect the English edition may have been reproduced by
photo-lithograph in the same way as the USA/RCA edition was.
In both cases it would be much cheaper to print and bind
locally rather than ship complete books from Australia plus
the Ausies may not have had a large enough printing facility
at the time since the entire population of Oz was probably
not more than ten million.
The main sign of the photolighography I see is a slight
clogging of some of the charts. Not a big deal.
This was a magnum opus and I doubt if anything like it
will ever again be published in its field.
RCA, like Kodak, was an extremely good source of
educational information. For instance, the tutorial on
vacuum tubes in the front of nearly all of the receiving
tube handbooks is excellent.
We didn't appreciate this stuff when it was available.
I was given the third edition of the RDH by an engineer
I knew when in my early teens. When the forth edition was
published I bought one immediately, I still remember doing
it. It came in the proverbial plain brown wrapper which, of
course, soon got lost. Its a book you can cuddle up to and
read over an over. I learned a great deal from it. It also
has a very exensive bibliography and many of the citations
are worth looking up.
K.R.Sturley's book, also available on Pete Milette's
site, is also worth having. It concentrates on radio
receiver design but, even though both of these books were
written before solid state electronics much if both are
still applicable, for instance filter design, etc. I
strongly recomend poking around on Pete's site, there is a
lot of valuable stuff there.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA