RHS Library: Magazines and Journals

For more specific information on our holdings or to inquire about donations, please contact:

RHS Librarian: Brian Belanger (radiobelanger@comcast.net)

Researchers may visit the RHS Museum in Bowie MD to use the library and may make copies of items for a modest fee. On a time available basis, the librarian may be able to copy items for people who cannot visit the museum in person.

In addition to the listings below, the RHS library has Rider Radio Manuals Volumes 1-22, Most Sams Photofacts, and manufacturer service manuals from companies such as DuMont, Hallicrafters, Philco, Zenith, and others.

 

All-Wave Radio

Manson

(First published issue - September 1935): Complete from September 1935 through June 1938 (all issues good condition in binders)

 

Antique Radio Classified

Antique Radio Classified

Complete from January 1985 through November 2001

 

Antique Radio Gazette

Antique Radio Club of America

Nearly complete from Vol. 1, No. 1 (1972) through Vol 20., No. 4 (1992). Missing a few issues from the mid-1970s.

 

Antique Radio News (Italy)

Issue # 1, 1993 only

 

ARCA Gazette – See Antique Radio Gazette

 

Audio

Radio Magazines, Inc.

Only scattered issues from 1955 through 1968.

 

Audiocraft

Audiocon, Inc.

A few issues 1957-58.

 

Audio Engineering

Audio Engineering

Only Feb., March, and June 1953 issues.

 

Bell System Technical Journal

AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories

Nearly complete for 1942-1950.

 

CB Magazine

Publishing Industries, Inc.

Only the Nov. 1966 issue.

 

CD Capacitor

Cornell-Dubilier

 Nearly complete holdings from June 1940 through March 1961.

 

Computers and Electronics – See Popular Electronics

 

CQ

Radio Magazines, Inc.

Complete from 1945 to 1987 (except for 1973-74).

 

Electronic Industries – See Tele-Tech

 

Electronic Servicing

Howard W. Sams

Only Oct. & Dec. 1970 and Sept. 1971.

 

Electronic Technician/Dealer

Electronic Technician, Inc.(formerly TV Technician)

Scattered issues 1957 through 1974.

 

Electronics

McGraw-Hill

Only May 1937 and Nov. 1954

 

Electronics Digest

Only Sept.-Oct. 1972.

  

Electronics Illustrated

Fawcett

Only May 1965, March 1968, Jan. 1970.

 

Electronics World

Ziff-Davis

Began May 1959 as Radio/TV News

Most issues from May 1959 through Dec. 1971, sparser in the early years.

 

Elementary Electronics

Science and Mechanics Publishing

Only March-1969 and all of 1979 except July-August.

 

The Experimenter

The Experimenter Publishing Co.

Only Dec. 1924, April 1925.

 

Frendx

North American Shortwave Association

Scattered issues, 1983 - 1989

 

General Radio Experimenter

General Radio History Society

Some issues 1930-1934; most issues 1944-1962.

 

Ham Radio

Communications Technology, Inc.

March 1973; complete from Jan. 1976 through June1990

 

Indiana Historical Radio Society Bulletin

IHRS

Scattered issues, 1977-1979

 

MAARC Newsletter

Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club

Almost complete Aug 1984 (first issue) through May 1994 (last)

Became Radio Age in June 1994

 

Morsum Magnificat (The Morse Magazine)

G.C. Arnold Partners

Only April and Dec. 1998, May 1999

 

National Radio News

National Radio Institute

(Became National Radio - TV News in the 1950s)

Only the 30th Anniversary Issue (Vol. 11:5), 1944

 

National Radio - TV News

Scattered issues from the 1950s

 

NRI Journal

(Formerly NRI News)

National Radio Institute

Most issues, 1963-1980.

 

NRI News

(Formerly National Radio - TV News; became NRI Journal in the 1960s)

Publisher - National Radio Institute, NRI

Most issues, 1960-1962

 

Old Timers Bulletin

Antique Wireless Association

Vol. 1, Numbers 2, 3; and nearly complete holdings, 1973-1999.

 

PF Reporter

Sams

Scattered issues, 1954-1967.

 

Popular Electronics

Ziff-Davis

Became Computers and Electronics in Jan. 1983.

Scattered issues 1955 through 1981, mostly complete in later years.

 

Popular Radio

Popular Radio, Inc.

Only July, Sept., and Nov. 1923

 

Popular Science

Modern Publishing Co.

Only Oct. 1923

 

Proceedings of the IEEE

see Proceedings of the IRE

 


 

Proceedings of the IRE

Institute of Radio Ebgineers (became Proceedings of the IEEE in 1963)

Scattered issues, 1913-1970, with the last 40 years nearly complete.

 

QST

American Radio Relay League

1921-1990, scattered issues, but most later years complete.

 

Radio

Technical Publishers

1924-1947, Most years complete (missing 1932-33).

 

Radio Age (1920s publication)

Radio Age, Inc.

Note: There have been several publications using the name Radio Age 

Only issue: May-June 1927

 

Radio Age (Don Patterson)

Don Patterson

Publication ceased in Dec. 1993, resumed in June 1994 by the Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club—see next entry.

Complete, 1976-1980; scattered issues 1981-1990; complete 1991-1993 (last issue Dec. 1993)

 

Radio Age (Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club)

Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club

Complete, June 1994 though April 1999.

 

Radio Age (RCA)

Radio Corporation of America

Started Oct. 1941 as a quarterly: Oct. 1941 through July 57 complete.

 

Radio Broadcast

Doubleday Page  

Complete, 1926 through May 1929.

 

Radio Broadcast Advertiser

Doubleday Page

Only March and Dec. 1925, Nov. 1926

 

Radio Bygones

Friary Press

Complete from Aug.-Sept. 1989 through Aug.-Sept. 1995.

 

Radio Craft

Technicraft (Became Radio – Electronics in 1948)

 Scattered issues, 1933-1946; most issues, 1947-48.

 

Radio Design

Radio Design Publishing Co.

Only Vol. 1: 4 (1928) and Vol. 2: 1 & 3 (1929).

 

Radio Electronic Engineering

Ziff-Davis

Only Nov. 1949 & June 1954.

 


 

Radio Electronics

Radcraft Publications

Scattered issues, 1948-1951; complete 1952-1957; scattered issues, 1958-1963; complete 1964-1966;

sattered issues 1967-68; complete 1969-1970; scattered issues 1971-75; a lmost complete 1976-1981;

and a few issues, 1982-1987.

 

Radio Engineering

1930 complete; Feb. and March 1931

 

Radio Maintenance

Boland & Boyce, Inc.

Only Sept. 1946.

 

Radio Mirror

MacFadden Publications

Only Sept. 1943

 

Radio News

Experimenter Publications; later Teck Publications

In 1948, became Radio and Television News

Most issues 1923-25; scattered issues 1925-29; complete, 1930-1931; complete Jun. 1932 through June 1934;

and scattered issues, 1935-1948.

 

Radio and Television

Popular Book Company

Dec. 1940 only

 

Radio and Television News

Ziff-Davis (Formerly Radio News; became Radio and Television News in 1948; became Radio-TV News in 1957)

Scatttered issues, 1948-1957

 

Radio and Television Retailing

Caldwell Clements

By 1948, included Radio and Television Today

Only April 1939; June 1939 Service & Sound section; Aug. 1948; April & Sept. 1949

 

Radio-TV News

Ziff-Davis

Formerly Radio and Television News(1957); became Electronics World in May 1959

Scattered issues, 1957-59

 

Radio Review

The Wireless Press

First issue, Oct. 1919: complete from Oct. 1919 through March 1922.

 

Radio Service Dealer

Cowan (later became Radio Television Service Dealer)

Scattered issues, 1941-1942

 

Radio Today/Radio & Television Today

Caldwell Clements (took second title April 1939)

Nearly complete from Oct. 1936 through Oct. 1941

 

Radio Television Service Dealer

Cowan (formerly Radio Service Dealer)

Only Oct. 1952.

 

Radio- TV Experimenter

Most issues, 1955-1969

 

Radio World

Hennessy Radio Publications

Scattered issues, 1932-1938.

 

RCA Review

Radio Corporation of America

Scattered issues 1936-1986, some years complete (and some indices available)

 

Sams Photofacts

Howard Sams

Most folders up through #1300

 

Science and Invention

Experimenter Publishing Co.(was Electrical Experimenter)

Scattered issues, 1920-1928.

 

Service

Bryan Davis Publishing Co.

Scattered issues, 1932-1934; complete 1935; nearly complete 1938; scattered issues 1940-42; mostly complete 1952-1955

 

Short Wave Craft

Gernsback

Complete, Dec. 1932 through Dec. 1936.

 

Short Wave Radio

Standard Publications

Dec. 1933 only

 

Sound Practices

Sound Practices

Only Summer and Fall 1992, Early 1993

 

Successful Servicing

John F. Rider

Sept.-Oct. 1940; nearly complete, 1948-1952

 

Technician

Caldwell-Clements (frmerly Television Retailing)

Only Sept. 1953

 

Tele-Tech

Caldwell Clements (formerly Electronic Industries)

Only Nov. 1949

 

TV Electronic Technician

Caldwell-Clements (became TV Technician in 1953)

Scattered issues: 1952-53.

 

TV Technician

Caldwell-Clements (formerly TV Electronic Technician; became Electronic Technician in Jan. 1959)

Scattered issues: 1953-57.  

 

Vail Correspondent

Tom French

Only Oct. 1997.

 

The Wireless Constructor

Only Jan, May, June, July, Aug. 1925.

 

Wireless World

Iliffe & Sons

Only July 1948.