Books

Books.

Books

I have over thousand books in my collection, so it would be an enormous challenge to mention them all. But you can see a summary if you follow this link. But apart from this, I have made a list of handbooks for radio amateurs:

Radio Amateur's Handbook published by ARRL.

First edition was published in November 1926 and a new edition has been published every year since then.
When USA entered WW2 the defense should use a textbook in the education of the many who should use radio communication in the war. The ARRL handbook was chosen and a special edition was published in 1942. It was the 1942 edition cleaned for all amateur related stuff.

In my collection: 1932, 1934, 1937, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1942 special defense ed., 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1993, 1997, 1998 and 2005.

Radio Amateur's Handbook by A. Frederick Collins.

A handbook with the same name but very different from the ARRL handbooks. First edition was published in 1922 and new editions was regularly published up in the eighties. I don't know when the last edition was published.

In my collection: 1922, 1927, 1949, 1957, 1964 and 1983.

Radio Handbook.

Was published by the magazine "Radio" and the name was in the beginning The "Radio" Handbook. It was also called The Jones Handbook, because Frank C. Jones was the head of the first editions. Later it was published by William I. Orr, W6SAI..
First edition came in 1935 and 23. edition in 1997. Between the 1937 edition and the 1938 edition a supplement to the 1937 ed. was published.

In my collection: 1936, 1937, supplement to 1937, 1939, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1962, 1967, 1978 and 1997.

Radio Communication Handbook published by RSGB.

Has been published in 7 editions. In 1942 a supplement to the 1940 edition was published.
1. ed.: 1938; 2. ed.: 1940; 3. ed.: 1961; 4. ed.: 1968; 5. ed.: 1976; 6. ed.: 1994 and 7. ed.: 1999.

In my collection: all 7 editions plus supplement.

Kurzwellentechnik, der Kurzwellen-Amateur, Amateurfunk and Amateurfunk-Handbuch

The German amateur organization, DASD/DARC had in cooperation with several publishers published several handbooks. The first was published in 1931.

In my collection: 1935, 1955, 1962, 1964, 1965,

Franzis Verlag has published a handbook for radio amateurs, too: Kurzwellen-Amateurfunktechnik in 1979.

In my collection: 1979.

EDR (Denmark) has published some handbooks:

Kortbølge Amatøren 1930 and 1932 in pocket book format.
Kortbølge Amatøren 1933; Kortbølge Radio 1935, 1937 and 1938; Kortbølgeamatørens Håndbog 1944, 1950 and 1960.

In my collection: 1932, 1933, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1944, 1950 and 1960.

NVIR (Nederland)

has with certainty published a handbook in 1939.

In my collection: 1939.

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