Building Electronics

[Harvey A. Kader]

I agree with you 100%. Electronics is a fascinating hobby and

vocation(for me it is the former). I once took an old Radio Shack book

which described how to build am amplifier from scratch. I found all the

required parts at Radio Shack and built the entire amp(true it was a

small amp - just two power transistors) from scratch using simply the

schematic(no line by line assembly instructions here - just general

concepts). It worked great. Then I designed my own AC power supply for

it(the book had described building it off a nine volt battery) and built

it into the amp.

I never studied electronics at school formerly and am not an electronics

engineer. I learned everything myself, including reading schematics to

building equipment. No teacher ever taught me anything about

electronics. All self taught from books, and experience!

Now I am restoring old tube radios and tube hi-fi equipment. Presently,

I am working on a tube GE AM/Shortwave radio in a beautiful mahogony

case. I bought this unit off the internet from you know where.

It is a  gem! Dates back to 1941.

The internet is a great place to buy parts, including tubes. It has made

the world a real global village. Economically, geographic and political

boundries don't mean much any more. Money is the currency of the

internet.



So have fun, and keep building. The sky is the limit!



Harvey A. Kader - http://www.angelfir.com/on/vacuumtubes

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