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25th Aug 2015, 6:41 pm | #21 |
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Re: Radio Constructor
Fantastic effort Jim, for which, many thanks.
A wonderful trip down memory lane for me! Back in 1970 I started to get all the bits together to build the 'Discovery' short-wave receiver - a two-valve four-stage design which used and ECL82 and ECC83 (in pre audio-phool days), which featured in the March 1970 issue. I started to do the metalwork, then due to career and family demands, the project stalled. I was then offered an 'as new' Trio 9R59DE, on which I did the modifications later outlined in three issues of Radio Constructor, so the need for a homebrew short-wave receiver diminshed. Various house moves got in the way, and to cut a long story short, I've still got the bits up in the loft on my 'to do list'. Crikey - where did those 45 years go?!! Lurking in one issue in the early 1960s will be the valved baby alarm that I built to monitor our new-born son. It worked well and came in handy again when his younger brother was born. They're now aged 51 and 47! (When they chuckle at my limited computing skills and for not using a smart-phone, I remind them who taught them how to use a spoon).
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27th Aug 2015, 4:44 am | #22 | |
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Jim gets my vote for his exhaustive (and probably exhausting) scanning. The Radio Constructor page is almost 100% built with contributed scans from Jim and several other collectors in the UK. I'm just happy I can make the server space available to allow these wonderful magazines to be shared and preserved. |
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6th Oct 2015, 11:08 am | #23 | |
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I've located the Clock Article (Dec. 1967 - March 1968) and will scan those issues soon. Things are still a bit hectic at the moment! Jim |
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24th Oct 2015, 10:35 am | #24 |
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All of RC 1967 is now on the website and I'm working on 1968. I've also sent a 1937 May 8th Practical Wireless to David which should be there in a few days time.
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25th Oct 2015, 11:01 am | #25 |
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Great work on the website Jim.
I've just unearthed half a dozen magazines from the 1930s. Five are entitled 'Wireless Magazine, published by Bernard Jones Publishing, Fetter Lance, London, who also published 'Amateur Wireless'. The issues are March 1931, August, October, December 1933, and February 1934. There is also May 1935 'Wireless & Television Review' (Vol 1, Issue No 6), with a 'Special Television Section', published by Amalgamated Press, Fleetway House, Farringdon St, London. I don't know if these are of any interest to you for scanning - I'd rather they end up scanned on a website than to simply be kept by an individual. The front covers are a fascinating snapshot of the era: 'The James Super 60 can be built for £12.00', which equates to £600 today, so not quite the bargain basement price that it appears to be at first sight. Another cover mentions the free guide inside (sadly missing) entitled 'Choosing your new radio - 150 sets, with prices at a glance'. Really, a ludicrous proliferation of sets, many of which will differ little from each other. Probably more sets than there are laptops/tablets/smartphones today. Please let me know if these are of any interest.
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26th Oct 2015, 10:50 am | #26 |
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Sounds great David. Many thanks! I've sent you a PM,
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13th Nov 2015, 10:52 pm | #27 |
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!966 and 68 (except Jan.68) are now up and running and I'm now scanning 1965.
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13th Nov 2015, 11:37 pm | #28 |
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Dont forget for cover and contents scans to upload to the magazines pages of 45worlds.com if you have the time, link backs from there to any detail scan webpages are permitted.
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16th Nov 2015, 11:05 pm | #29 |
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I'll do that when I have a moment. Cheers.
Jim |
25th Nov 2015, 11:18 am | #30 |
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1965 is now on the website thanks to David.
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6th Dec 2015, 12:47 pm | #31 |
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1969 is now complete.
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7th Dec 2015, 9:42 am | #32 |
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Jim, I've just unearthed Oct, Nov, Dec 1964 and Dec 1973.
If I'm right, there are no 1964 RCs on the site, and only Jan/Feb 1973. You're welcome to these for scanning and adding to the site if that's helpful. (I don't need them back).
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7th Dec 2015, 12:41 pm | #33 |
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That's very kind of you again David but I think I have those. At the moment my RC collection is in the attic and I cannot actually go in there without risking life and limb as everything is piled around the entrance!!! So what I'm doing is groping around until I find a bagful and then scanning those - not in any year order however! I think I have all of the rest except, possibly, Jan 1968 and Feb 1974 (the latter contains the only contribution made to them by yours truly!).
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7th Dec 2015, 5:38 pm | #34 |
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No probs Jim - good luck in your scanning endeavours!
You must really have your work cut out - wonderful that they're being preserved in an archive. Really, I ought not to keep reading them because as often as not, I find a little project that interests me, realise I have all the bits, then launch into it and get diverted from other projects! Presently, it's a Transformer Ratio Analyser from Nov 1974 R&EC that caught my eye. Just a circuit, so I've designed a tag-board and front panel for it, and when it's finished (assuming that it works!), I'll start a thread in the Homebrew Section. I've spent many a happy hour reading the long-running 'Suggested Circuits' series by G.A. French, and the prolific articles by the late Sir Douglas Hall.
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7th Dec 2015, 6:15 pm | #35 |
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Yes, I saw that one. The problem with me is that I'm a virtual constructor: I see a good circuit and have to build it - but just in my head 99 times out of a hundred." I have to have all the bits though!
Did you know that G.A.French was a pseudonym of J.R.Davies as was W.G.Morley and Caborn (I'm pretty sure). I think the later "Recorder" was written by him too. Some issues of RC were practically all written by him, including of course "In Your Workshop" Doug Hall was amazing too. He was Governor of British Somaliland at one stage as well. Jim |
5th Feb 2016, 1:39 pm | #36 |
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May I point out that RC Jan 1980 is a huge file, much larger than the rest.
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5th Feb 2016, 9:06 pm | #37 |
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I'm really looking forward some day to read the obituary for JR Davies, I think in the May 1980 RC. He was a brilliant writer and I learned a lot from Dick and Smithy.
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15th Feb 2016, 1:28 pm | #38 | |
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15th Feb 2016, 1:32 pm | #39 | |
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