[Bret L]

On May 11, 3:28*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"
wrote:
On May 11, 3:58*am, Bret L wrote:

*It's called "The Theory and Servicing of AM, FM, And FM Stereo
Receivers", by Clarence R. Green and Robert M. Bourque.

*Despite the ungainly title there is some really good information in
here, lucidly presented. It explains biasing of both tubes and
transistors very well.

*It does require basic AC and DC electricity and electronic devices
competence so is not really a primer. I recommend old ARRL Handbooks
for that or the classic Electricity 1-7 and Electronics 1-7 for that.
This book is well worth looking for on eBay.

*It is also not a book of practice. and really doesn't cover the
physical aspects of working on electronics. Again, there are other
books for that.

A suggestion more appropriate for rec.audio.tech or rec.audio.tubes.

What was the last novel you read? What was your opinion of it?

I tend to find an author I like and read everything they write.

I'm currently reading "Bonnie Blue Murder" by Harold Covington. I
have only read two other Covington books, both in his "Northwest
Quartet". Covington is a racialist and not very Politically Correct at
all. He's a decent novelist, not great, but as good as say Clive
Cussler.

I read everything by both Nevil Shute and Arthur Hailey. They are
both fiction writers whose work is strongly tied to reality in terms
of science and technology. Shute "jumped the shark" with his famous
"On The Beach", an artistic success both as a novel and as a movie
starring Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck ( a pinko but a good actor) and
Fred Astaire (one of the greats all around), but sadly also a
communist propaganda weapon used to advocate the truly insane concept
of unilateral disarmament. ((It really could not have happened: the
science was even crappier than AGW)). Hailey got a bad reputation also
from the sequels to the pretty good film adaptation of "Airport",
which all stunk like a ramp worker deluged by a honey wagon hose
failure.

In my youth I read a lot of SF. I read a lot of Asimov, a lot of
Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, some Dean Ing, and some Heinlein as
well. Looking back, Heinlein wasn't as smart as we all thought he
was.

But what have novels got to do with r.a.o. either? The nonfiction
books are fully on topic, as if anyone cared. These, no.