Because I have so few ham radio books here and get an amateur radio magazine only when a visitor from the US is able to bring one, I've burned up a lot of time on my Warid 3G Internet stick looking at radio related sites on the net. Although sites with graphics are very slow to load, I have discovered that downloads on the weekends are somewhat faster. In one of the sidebar boxes on this blog I list some of the blogs and pages I visit most, but here are a few others worth mentioning:

Click here to take a look at Radio Shack catalogs from 1939 -2005. Graphics intensive so you should have a high-speed connection. But lots of great radio parts and gear from decades past. You can't download, but it is fun to browse.

You Tube pages with radio video clips (just click on the description, the clip will open in a new page):

AO-51 Satellite demo

"Ham Radio Today" hosted by Walter Cronkite

Radio Hams film by Pete Smith, cool nostalgic look at ham radio past

Andy Hardy uses ham radio

"On The Air" a 1937 film produced by General Motors on how broadcast radio works

"The Radio at War" a 14 minute film produced by RCA

 

Downloads - copyright free books which can be downloaded and read.

"Calling CQ" by Clinton DeSoto. Available here free in 6 formats including Kindle and PDF, or read it on-line.

"Handbook of Amateur Tube Uses", also available here in 6 formats.

"Electron Tube Design" by RCA available here.

"Wireless Telegraphy; With Special Reference to the Quenched-Spark System (1921.)" OK, this one is a little old, but cool anyway.

"The wireless experimenter's manual, incorporating How to conduct a radio club, describes parliamentary procedure in the formation of a radio club, the design of wireless transmitting and receiving apparatus, long distance receiving sets, vacuum tube amplifiers, radio telegraph and telephone sets, the tuning and calibration of transmitters and receivers, general radio measurements and many other features (1920)" Yes, that's the title but its an interesting look at the very early days of radio. Get it here.

"The how and why of Radio Apparatus: A Treatise on the Principles Underlying the Operation of Wireless Transmitting and Receiving Instruments" another gem from 1920.

If you know of any interesting sites, let me know.