Wireless World & Radiio Constructor

[pinnerite]

I have the following bound volumes that need a good home.

Wireless World Bound Volumes ============================ Oct 1956 to May 1958 Jul 1958 to Feb 1960 Mar 1960 to Dec 1961 Jan to Dec 1962 Jan to Dec 1963 Jan to Dec 1964 Jan to Dec 1965 Jan to Dec 1966 Jan 1967 to Feb 1968 Mar to Dec 1968 Jan to Dec 1969 Volume 75 Jan to Dec 1970 Volume 76 Jan to Dec 1971 Volume 77 Jan to Dec 1972 Volume 78 Jan to Dec 1973 Volume 79

Radio Constructor Voumes 15 to 21

1961-62 Volume 15 1962-63 Volume 16 1963-64 Volume 17 1964-65 Volume 18 1965-66 Volume 19 1966-67 Volume 20 1967-68 Volume 21

Apart from one of the RC's whose spine cover split when it was accidentally dropped, all are in or near perfect condition.

Any offers or suggestions?

TIA

[Adrian Caspersz]

What kind of library do they build into care homes, to keep residents mentally stimulated?

How about Mens shed charities?

[whisky-dave]

I wonder if bletchly park would be interested.

I wonder if they are digitized somewhere, as we threw out a similar collection 15 years ago because we needed the space as a server room.

[Adrian Caspersz]

I think the American worldradiohistory site has quite a large UK collection, dunno if those issues are covered.

A search engine on the articles OCR'd would be great ...

[Peter Able]

The RSGB archive, when at Bletchley Park, ended up in a skip !

Also, see:

PA

[Clive Arthur]

I had WW -> EWW -> EW from about 1973 to 1993 IIRC. Not bound, but in good nick. I tried eBay and a couple of clubs, but they nearly all ended up in recycling.

A bloke off eBay just wanted one to fill a gap, so I sent it to him FOC on condition he put a couple of quid in a charity box.

I kept the four with my published circuit ideas out of vanity, and so I could boast about it here.

[John Rumm]

Could you stick copies of them on the wiki, for those curious and some extra bragging rights?

[Peter Able]

IIRC the spec for RS232 was +/-3 to +/-15v. How many implementations obeyed that? Not to mention that random data in two stop bits mode would not average zero volts !

PA

[N_Cook]

I've got many shelf-yards of repair manuals and component databooks to find another home. British Library does not carry such. A military radio museum in Notts is not interested. When things open up a bit more I may try Mr.Erb. at radiomuseum.org Germany And try the tech library facility at the Wiltshire Wroughton part of the Science Museum. When such radio rallies start up again, listing on

a large one near you and get a pitch in a car-boot sale section, you might find a taker.

[Clive Arthur]

No, they include my real name!

It was a long time ago, but two were fairly novel ways of solving problems relating to FM tape recorders, one was a simple video combiner and the last was just trying it on but it was actually useful...

We were designing a system where we wanted as much data throughput as we could get at IIRC 9600 baud RS232. It was fairly random data between a real time controller and a logging PC. The PC guy wasn't really up to 'fast' stuff so I made a speed meter. RS232 is bipolar and flat-out a random byte sequence should average 0V. -ve voltages show under utilisation, and +ve show likely problems, so I got a centre zero meter and a suitable resistor and Bob was his uncle - an easy way of checking throughput.

So that's it, resistor + meter -> cash reward. They were desperate for content.

The first one appeared a couple of years later in EDN under another name. Someone had copied it and sent it to them - wish I'd thought of that.

[Clive Arthur]

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One thing I did with a few of the older ones (valves) and a few old books (eg 'Inside the IBM PC' by Peter Norton), was to slip them into bookshelves at a couple of customer's places where everyone is much younger.

No-one's mentioned it.

[John Rumm]

One could always redact that...

[Owain Lastname]

You could try the Vintage Radio forums

Owain

[N_Cook]

And on usenet, still active it seems rec.antiques.radio+phono

[Scribbles]

You could also try this forum: