{"id":9394,"date":"2009-03-06T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/06\/lots-of-great-old-radio-books-free\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:27:35","slug":"lots-of-great-old-radio-books-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/06\/lots-of-great-old-radio-books-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots of Great Old Radio Books  FREE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gutenberg.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 162px; height: 72px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gutenberg.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309942943470630258\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Our man in Helsinki, Greg, OH2FFY, reports that &#8220;Armstrong: A Man of High Fidelity&#8221; 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 &#8220;flip&#8221; version &#8212; you get a very nice display that is much like looking at a real book. Here&#8217;s the link:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/cvc4qd\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/cvc4qd<\/a><br \/>That link led me to Project Gutenberg where I plugged in the word &#8220;radio&#8221; and was instantly given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/search.php?query=radio%20AND%20collection%3Agutenberg\">a list of really nice old books<\/a>, including the Radio Amateur&#8217;s Handbook by A. Frederick Collins of Congers N.Y. (my home town). Here it is:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/theradioamateurs06935gut\">http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/theradioamateurs06935gut<\/a><br \/>Thanks Greg!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our man in Helsinki, Greg, OH2FFY, reports that &#8220;Armstrong: A Man of High Fidelity&#8221; 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 &#8220;flip&#8221; version &#8212; you get a very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/06\/lots-of-great-old-radio-books-free\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lots of Great Old Radio Books  FREE!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,521],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-project-gutenberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9396,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394\/revisions\/9396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}