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