ABOUT RADIO ERA ARCHIVES

Radio Era was started in 1995 after doing some research about whether anyone was creating  digital archiving of old radio information, manuals and schematics.  Basically, I found that about the only thing that was being put on CD-ROM was new information along with computer programs and games.

So after having been smitten by the antique radio bug (a very rare and everlasting disease), I was looking for some of the old reference books I used to have when I was much, much younger.  What I found was basically nothing.  The electronics stores kind of look at you like you just landed from Mars if you even ask about things like "tubes" and stuff like that, and they had nothing that dealt with radios that were 40 or 50 years old.  Likewise, I found little at the local library, and found absolutely nothing in the book stores, so the die was cast . . . I decided that I would single handedly try to archive these great old books and reference works and produce them into CD-ROM electronic publications.

By this time, you might wonder who I am . . . I am Terry Muncey, proprietor of REA, antique radio nut, and also amateur radio operator since the early 50's and my call letters are W5OAS.  To non-ham radio operators, this means nothing, but if you are a ham, you will understand how I became smitten with radios at a early and tender age. 

So for 10 years now, I have been producing CD-ROM publications and the list is growing.  If you want an electronic CD-ROM catalog from REA that you can print, go to the CD-ROM section and you can what we have amassed with our CD-ROM electronic publications.

WE NEED HELP! (click here to see how you might help)

The help we need in archiving lies in the area of loans and donations.  Not money but books, manuals, magazines, reference works and the like.  After you see what we have produced to date on CD-ROM, we would ask that you click on "we need help" above to see if there is something that you can do to help this almost impossible task of archiving this old radio information.