08-07-2021, 06:58 PM
Reading schematics is easy: I learned it as an 8-yo kid.
Symbols used in radios aren't many so as long as you remember resistors, capacitors, inductances and tubes - the rest is kinda self-explanatory like switches and antennaes.
Reading however does not mean undertstanding. You could read a phrase, but not understand the meaning. Same here: all circuits more or less are connections of RCL and then possibly some tubes with various functions. But what it does after it is connected - that's what matters. And this where the books come in.
I would not spend time trying to understand the whole theory - people spend years doing that. There is a practical part that relates to tube radios - and there are good practical guides that were used to teach repair techs. I would find and use them.
Like that one Mike pointed to. Plus there are others.
Symbols used in radios aren't many so as long as you remember resistors, capacitors, inductances and tubes - the rest is kinda self-explanatory like switches and antennaes.
Reading however does not mean undertstanding. You could read a phrase, but not understand the meaning. Same here: all circuits more or less are connections of RCL and then possibly some tubes with various functions. But what it does after it is connected - that's what matters. And this where the books come in.
I would not spend time trying to understand the whole theory - people spend years doing that. There is a practical part that relates to tube radios - and there are good practical guides that were used to teach repair techs. I would find and use them.
Like that one Mike pointed to. Plus there are others.
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