Subj : Storage
To : Holger Granholm
From : Roy Witt
Date : Tue Jun 10 2014 12:51 pm
Greetings Holger!
EV>> A copy of The Radio Amateur's Hand Book 1922 by A. Frederick Collins
EV>> is at their web site.
EV>> It isn't current, but it is interesting to read about how to build
EV>> a Spark Transmitter.
HG> Are you shure that 1922 is correct. I own a 1926 edition of "The
HG> Radio Amateurs Handbook" "First edition" that was included with the
HG> purchase of the 80th anniversary of ARRL handbook.
A. Frederick Collins authored the 1922 Radio Amateur's Handbook, it isn't
by any means the Radio Ameateur's Handbook of today or even 1926. Merely a
history of radio up to 1922.
Archie Frederick Collins (1869-1952) was a prolific inventor and author of
many technical and popular works on radio, science and technology. We are
indebted to him for this remarkable view of Amateur Radio technology in
the early 1900s. The Radio Amateur's Hand Book, was reprinted in 2008 and
is available free online from Forgotten Books, and in paperback at
Amazon.com, 236 p, $9.01.
HG> Please note: That 1926 Handbook was published by ARRL, not by some
HG> A. Frederick Collins.
Modern readers need to know this is not the ARRL Handbook for Radio
Communications and it was not written by Art Collins of Collins Radio. It
is actually a collection of early Amateur Radio information and projects,
complete with how-to-build-it information. While the content may not have
been forward-looking for 1922, having several stages of technical history
compressed into one volume is enlightening and entertaining for today's
readers.
