BVWS Bulletin Volume 33, Number 2 (Summer 2008)

BVWS BulletinVolume 33, Number 2 (Summer 2008)

Front cover:  Pixytone Radio, 1950s
Back cover:  Astrophine Crystal Set by Amplifiers Ltd., 1920s

Page Title Summary/Notes
3 Cray Valley Radio Society puts the BVWTM on the air in 2006
4 Crystal Sets and 2BE Belfast
Ian Sanders
8 A Wireless Whimsey - The Pixytone novelty radio
Ken Brooks G3XSJ
11 It's Museum Time Again
Dicky Howlett
Trip around Paris
12 Special exhibit of Mechanical Music, NVCF May 2008
Photos by Carl Glover
14 The Beam Tetrode
LL (Bill) Williams
17 Cathode Ray Tubes and Thermionic Valves: Some Key Years
Phil Taylor
18 A Swapmeet across the Pond
John Howes
Michigan Antique Radio Club three day event with the Tube Collectors Association
21 Put away that varnish stripper
Tim Voore
22 Repair of an Advance Signal Generator SG62B
Gary Tempest
24 Philco 84B chassis headache
Colin Wood
26 Television - A Warning From 'History'
Dicky Howlett
28 Book Review: "The IBC versus the BBC, the biography of Captain Leonard F. Plugge" by Keith Wallis
Reviewed by Malcolm Baird
29 Harpenden auction and AGM, Spring 2008
Photos by Carl Glover
34 A brief resume of British (and several overseas) finished goods and component manufacturers - part 17
Dave Hazell
As at May 2005