Our man in Helsinki, Greg, OH2FFY, reports that "Armstrong: A Man of High Fidelity" is available free online. We talked about this book in a recent SolderSmoke. I checked it out and found the online version to be very easy to read. I suggest you click on the "flip" version -- you get a very nice display that is much like looking at a real book. Here's the link:
http://tinyurl.com/cvc4qd
That link led me to Project Gutenberg where I plugged in the word "radio" and was instantly given a list of really nice old books, including the Radio Amateur's Handbook by A. Frederick Collins of Congers N.Y. (my home town). Here it is:
http://www.archive.org/details/theradioamateurs06935gut
Thanks Greg!
Re: Receiver Mica Disease
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You might be seeing the effects of bad silver-mica capacitors. Apparently
silver can migrate thru the mica insulation forming little fingers
(dendrites) wh...
8 hours ago