05-11-2015, 04:37 PM
(05-11-2015, 02:12 AM)Alan Douglas Wrote: It's easy for armchair critics to pick out minor errors and show how smart they are. None of them could write a book.
"Tesla's radio receiver." That's pretty funny. I've read all of his original publications and nothing like that was ever described. Quite unlike Marconi and Fessenden who did actually transmit and receive and held public demonstrations to prove it.
Decent books are few and far between. Chas Miller's was extremely good but I wish he'd devoted more pages to basic stuff like potentiometers. That is how to test the bias between potentiometer and grid. I had to learn all of this by myself.
Someone sold me an early forties book on tube radio which is a gem. There is only TRF covered and most of that was battery power. I liked the tips on discharging HT caps using a mere pocket pen-knife!!
The book I use now is very technical aimed at amateur radio construction. Last night I was going through the circuits on cathode followers.
