Soundwaves Article Index

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YearMonthTitle/SubjectAuthor
2023 Winter
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Spring
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Summer
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Fall
(not yet available)
2022 Winter
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Spring
Drastic Tube Substitution
Tom Burgess
Summer
Radio Detective: Intermittent Reception Traced to Bad Speaker
Mike Grimes
Fall
Zenith V.P. of Engineering J.E.Brown has Battery Set Radio Supply made for Teen Ager
Keith McManus
2021 Winter
Members & their Projects: Caitlyn Zaleski
Walt Zaleski
Spring Radio Detective: Subtle Schematic Error Mike McCarty
Summer Radio Detective: Silvertone Model 1 "Possessed" with multiple problems Wayne Jones
Fall
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2020 Winter
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Spring Radio Detective: Expedient 12K7 Replaces 12SA7 as Converter Mike Grimes
Summer Radio Detective: Sliver of Steel Wool Shorts Tuning Condenser Billy Smith
Defective IF Transformers 1 of 2 Blake Dietze
Fall Defective IF Transformers 2 of 2 Blake Dietze
2019 Winter Meet Your Board of Directors -- Cleo Cherryholmes Mike Grimes
On The Air -- 113 Years Ago Wikipedia Article Reprint
Spring Radio Detective: High Voltage on Converter Grid Billy Smith
Summer Radio Detective: Intermittently Shorting Oscillator Coil Kills B-Plus Mike McCarty
Fall Radio Detective: Leaky Mica Capacitor Mike McCarty
2018 Winter V.R.P.S. -- The Early Days Glen E. Zook, Charter Member
Spring Radio Detective: Leaky Coupling Capacitor Causes Hum Mike Grimes
Summer Radio Detective: Mysterious Component is Inductor in "Microphone Radio" Mike McCarty
Fall Zenith Trans-Oceanic, the "Royalty of Radios" Paul Litwinovich
2017 Winter
(no articles)
Spring Radio Detective: Philco with Bad Local Oscillator Coupling Capacitor Mike McCarty
Summer Radio Detective: Pixie Jewell Missing Antenna Coil Mike McCarty
Fall Radio Detective: Unmarked Power Supply Decoded Mike McCarty
2016 Winter
(no articles)
Spring Radio Detective: Teletone Radio w/Multiple Issues Bill McKeown
Summer Repairing a Damaged Bakelite Radio Case Gary Swymeler
Fall Radio Detective: Teletone with Hum Due To Bad Audio Coupling Capacitor Mike McCarty
2015 Winter Radio Detective: Recondite Receiver Broken Volume Control Mike McCarty
Spring Radio Detective: Modern Component Values Mike McCarty
Summer Radio Adventure: Exploring the Catacombs of RCA Larry Lindsey
A Visit to the Spark Museum of Electrical Invention Jim Sargent
Fall Adapting a Crosley "Buddy Boy" Electrodynamic Speaker to a Permanent Magnet Speaker Rich Klarr
Radio Detective: Wayward Wales Shorted Tuning Condenser Mike McCarty
2014 Winter Modify Vacuum-Tube Audio for Higher Fidelity Patrick Jankowiak
Working with Zinc Die Cast (Pot Metal) Larry Lindsey
Spring Radio Detective: Power Supply Transformer Mike McCarty
Summer Radio Detective: Mysterious Motorboater Part 1 Mike McCarty
Fall Radio Detective: Mysterious Motorboater Solved Mike McCarty
Inexpensive Lightweight B-Plus Power Supply Mike McCarty
2013 Winter
(no articles)
Spring Civil War Telegraph and the First Air Force George Potter
Summer Radio Detective: Confusing Console (Telefunken oscillating) Mike McCarty
Fall Radio Detective: Confusing Console (solution) Mike McCarty
A Texas Legend Goes Up in Smoke (Big Tex) George Potter
2012 Winter Repair of Mechanical Radio Tuning Verniers Mike Grimes & Cleo Cherryholmes
Sending Morse by Candle Light Jim Sargent
Spring The First Radio in Springdale Bruce Vaughan
Those FM Radio Channel Numbers Mike Grimes
480i - What Does it Mean? Mike McCarty
Summer Silver Mica Disease Dale B. Allen
Fall Mixers, Converters and an Annoying Whistle at 570KC Mike McCarty
2011 Winter Use of Capacitors to Replace Series Filament Resistors Mike Grimes
Spring "Unknown" Transformers Mike McCarty
Vogue Picture Records Randy James
Summer Mallory Bias Cells Mike McCarty
The Problem with the 1924 Zenith Super Portable Radio Gilbert Hedge
Fall AC/DC Radio Safety Randy James
2010 Winter A Simpler Way to Replace Parts Randy James
Tag Your Repair Items Jim Sargent
Spring You Mean There is a History of HD TV? George Potter
Summer Heptode Converters (Finish) Mike McCarty
Fall Internet Security Patrick Jankowiak
2009 Winter Tips on Cleaning Mike McCarty
Spring Those Simple Non-Technical Radio Repairs! (Dial Cords) Cleo Cherryholmes
Summer Watch for B-Minus Filtering Mike McCarty
Fall Heptode Converters (Part 1) Mike McCarty
Crosley Fiver 517 Restoration Tom Johnson
2008 Winter
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Spring Watch Out for those Metal Tubes! Cleo Cherryholmes
Summer Which is Better - a VTVM, VOM, or DVM? Mike McCarty
That Pesky 35Z5 Rectifier Blake Dietze
Dial Lamp will Not Light! Mike McCarty
The Olden Years Musical Museum Tour George Potter
Fall Various Web Sources and Equations Mike Grimes & Cleo Cherryholmes
2007 Winter Radio/Phonograph Era in Grapevine, Texas George Potter
Spring Crosley Ventures Beyond Radio George Potter
Biography of Ed Janssen Ed Janssen
Biography of Cleo Cherryholmes Cleo Cherryholmes
Summer Capacitor Markings and Units Mike Grimes
Fall Evolution of the Edison Screw Shell and Base George Potter