woohoo! RDH4!!!

[aardvarkash10]

not often I get excited over buying a 1.5 kilogram 1495 pg text book written over half a century ago, but a pristine copy of RDH4 for $2 is worth celebrating.

And I have nighttime reading for a year. Or two.

 

[Knarf]

That sounds like the deal of the week, congratulations.

 

[Miles Prower]

Yep, it sure is. Helluva find there. (I got the RDH-4 as a *.pdf.) Very good source there.

 

[Zen Mod]

deal of a year , not a week ......

 

[DF96]

A bargain! Now make sure you learn it well, as we will be testing you in due course.

 

[trobbins]

Maybe an even better copy is one that is written all over with little notes by some dude from Mullard or Bell labs!

 

[aardvarkash10]

Maybe an even better copy is one that is written all over with little notes by some dude from Mullard or Bell labs!

No such luck actually - just an inscription on the frontpiece assuring Michael that Mum and Dad love him and wish him a happy Christmas in 1961.

I suspect, given the state of the book, that he was less enthusiastic than they imagined... Its in beautiful, near new condition!

 

[kevinkr]

I paid nearly $50 some twenty odd years ago (just before the internet) for a hardcover RDH4 missing a couple of dozen pages at the very end. I think you did very well..

 

[HollowState]

Excellent buy. Now go and find Tremaine's "Audio Cyclopedia" for some really useful audio information.

 

[taj]

And I have nighttime reading for a year. Or two.

Wow. It would take me 10 years to read that. And I have to read things 4 times before I understand them. That would make me 90, just enough time to slap something simple together before I'm gone (I hope.)

 

[aardvarkash10]

yes, but being young as you are Taj, you probably have better things to do at night than read dense volumes of arcane technical literature... ;-)

 

[Tfan69]

sorry.. for the illiterate non english people... what is RDH4???

 

[Zen Mod]

Radiotron Designer Handbook Edition 4

boyz from http://geek.scorpiorising.ca/GeeK_ZonE/index.php are responsible for pdf floating around .

 

[kstagger]

also second Audio Cyclopedia

also for beginners, RDH3 is a little more readable/simple.

 

[aardvarkash10]

RDH4 is the shorthand for Radiotron Designers Handbook, 4th Edition. What it doesn't cover on tubes isn't worth knowing...

 

[Tfan69]

thanks

 

[Knarf]

RDH4 is the shorthand for Radiotron Designers Handbook, 4th Edition. What it doesn't cover on tubes isn't worth knowing...

Actually it doesn't really cover anything but subjects relating to radio broadcast receivers, AM and FM. Plenty of aspects of tubes are not covered, like transmitters and related tubes.

But it is a good start.

 

[cerrem]

RDH4 as mentioned is a good book for starting out...
It is in no way advanced engineering textbook of its day, since it was written for the hobbiest and technician level...
Great find at a great price.....

Chris

 

[aardvarkash10]

yeah - all the caveats are true, I have really only passed on the hyperbole that has built around this doorstop of a book.

I'm still delighted ot own a copy though!

 

[AuroraB]

Excellent buy. Now go and find Tremaine's "Audio Cyclopedia" for some really useful audio information.

Huh... bought that new in 1974.... cost me roughly 55$ by today's value!